With its list of taboos and implied changes, pregnancy can cause anxiety, stress, and insomnia, especially for people who are already being treated for psychiatric disorders. When treatment is needed, benzodiazepines are most commonly prescribed, a large family of drugs used as hypnotics, sedatives, or anxiolytics known by the brand names Xanax, Lexomil, or Valium. According to recent data, 1.2 to 2% of expectant mothers take it at least once during pregnancy, which still represents 8,000 women in France. However, while the negative effects of these molecules are well known (in particular, the development of addiction), their effects on fetal health are less well known. A group of scientists from the University of Taiwan studied the risk of miscarriage. Their work has just been published in a journal JAMA Psychiatry.
Researchers analyzed 3 million pregnancies that occurred…
Source: Le Figaro
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