Blood Count Ratios and Postpartum Depressive Symptoms: Findings from a Homogeneous Sample of First-Time Mothers.
OBJECTIVE Postpartum depressive symptoms are a common psychiatric condition with multifactorial aetiology. Haematological inflammatory markers such as neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) and monocyte-to-lymphocyte ratio (MLR) have been proposed as indicators of systemic inflammation...