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But that isn’t true, Biggs said, who worked on the Turnaway Study, a longitudinal study examining the effects of unwanted pregnancy on women's lives which found that abortion isn’t linked to mental illness — though being denied one might.

Greenberg added that state-of-the-art statistical tools that Rodebaugh and Frumkin have helped advance, such as "Dynamic Structural Equation Modeling," were key in analyzing the complex, longitudinal EMA data.

Researchers have used mobile health data from Fitbit devices to monitor and measure recovery and compare activity levels over time but this research has shown that activity data, plus longitudinal assessment data, is more accurate in predicting how the patient will do after surgery, Greenberg said.

It is the latest publication from the Apple Women's Health Study, a longitudinal study of menstrual cycles, gynecological conditions, and overall women's health conducted by Harvard Chan School, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and Apple.

"This is a possibility that should be examined in large-scale longitudinal studies that heavily sample brain and behavioral measures during the first postnatal years."