Chapters Transcript Video Disparities in Screening for Postpartum Depression - Insights From American Heart Association Research Goes Red Registry Back to Symposium Hi everybody. My name is Gary MMA Sharma. I'm a cardiologist at johns Hopkins. I am delighted to tell you about an upcoming study that we'd be presenting at the american Heart Association sessions. It is on disparities and screening and postpartum depression among reproductive age women in the United States. These are data from the American Heart Association Research Coast registry. And what we did was look at uh the number of women that had postpartum depression and were screened for postpartum depression. In the large perspective cohort which is multiracial and um through the american Heart Association's research registry um we know that postpartum depression affects about one in five women in the United States and is associated with cardiovascular disease and outcomes. There are disparities in postpartum depression screening and it has not been well studied. And so we really investigated self reported screening diagnosis of P. P. D. Which is postpartum depression and disparities in screening. We looked at 3000 women who responded to the survey um and out of those 3000 women, about 300 were postpartum and will be found that there were actual significant disparities between rural and urban. Um screening of women with postpartum depression where the screening of postpartum depression in urban women was significantly higher as compared to rural women. Um This was an important finding uh and it really talks to us about the things that we need to put in place to bring screening of postpartum depression to all individuals of reproductive age and I think it's an important take home point from this registry Created by