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Low Birth Weight Connected to Depression in Teenage Girls
Girls who are born weighing less than five and a half pounds are more likely to develop depression at ages 13 to 16, according to the results of a scientific study. Low birth weight was not linked to depression in teenage boys.Researchers at Duke Medical School in Durham, NC, kept track of 1420 children ages 9 to 16. They found that 23.4% of the girls with low birth weights developed teenage depression, compared to only 3.4% of those girls born at normal weights. While the researchers could not explain the link, they recommended that pediatricians and parents monitor the mental health of teenage girls who had low birth weights.
This article appears in the March 2007 Archives of General Psychiatry.
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