Girl babies born underweight, means weighting less than 2,500 grams, are more prone to depression, especially when they enter the ambit of teenage. A new study reveals after going through an intensive study, which tracked about 1,420 boys and girls, ages 9 to 16.
According to this study, girls born underweight among them 38.1 per cent experienced at least one episode of depression between the ages of 13 to 16. While the percentage of depression-struck girls, born normal weight was just 8.4 per cent. Interestingly, association between underweight-born boys and depression was no as firm as was in the boys. Uncovering the importance of this study Elizabeth Jane Costello of Duke University Medical School in Durham, N.C., and her colleagues remarked:
The findings suggest that pediatricians and parents of girls who were of low birth weight should pay close attention to their mental health as they enter puberty.
It means that pregnant moms should take special care of their unborn babies; otherwise, on entering teenage they may also be engulfed by the spate of depression, which is already thrashing the whole world.
Via: In The News
