EFA Home
about this site
NIH Home

 

DHA contents of mothers’ milk and prevalence rates of postpartum depression. Postpartum prevalence rates for Australia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, The United States were derived by meta-analysis. All other countries are represented by a single study, see text. DHA content of mother’s milk is expressed as the weight percent of docosahexaenoic acid of mature milk. A simple Pearson’s product moment correlation was used for regression analysis (r5 20.84, p,0.0001).This Figure is from J.R. Hibbeln, 

 Journal of Affective Disorders 69(2002) 15-29.