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Published in final edited form as: Arch Womens Ment Health. 2013 Oct 3;17(1):17–26. doi: 10.1007/s00737-013-0383-6

Table 2.

Rates of antidepressant prescribing during pregnancy (1995–2007), by drug class

Year	Number of	Rates of Antidepressant Prescribing
	women	(Number of prescriptions per 1,000 women)^a
	(N)	Any				Other
		Antidepressant	SSRI	SNRI	TCA	Antidepressant
1995	14,844	66.0	27.1	0.5	32.3	8.8
1996	16,248	64.9	24.9	0.8	32.7	8.9
1997	16,071	86.3	38.6	1.8	37.0	13.3
1998	17,226	115.9	70.4	4.4	36.2	14.5
1999	18,018	147.1	95.8	7.6	37.5	18.2
2000	18,788	162.0	115.1	12.3	29.0	15.3
2001	19,155	182.8	135.9	20.8	20.3	21.5
2002	19,687	290.8	224.8	39.0	20.3	26.1
2003	17,951	358.8	266.8	66.4	22.0	29.2
2004	17,606	397.6	289.1	83.4	23.0	28.8
2005	18,198	359.8	259.6	77.4	18.7	24.6
2006	19,132	267.4	184.0	58.2	16.8	15.5
2007	15,952	195.4	128.1	43.3	14.4	16.3

Represents the total number of prescriptions during pregnancy per 1,000 women who gave birth in a given study year.