Perinatal Complications and Delivery Route in Newborns from Early and late Teenage Mothers, 1995-1997

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  • Jorge Yu-Tang Morales Departamento de Ginecología y Obstetricia Hospital Daniel Alcides Carrión Callao, Perú

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15381/anales.v61i1.4252

Keywords:

Labor complications, Pregnancy in Adolescence, Infant Newborn, Birth Injuries

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: To know the perinatal complications and delivery route in newborns from early and late teenage mothers. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Analytic, observational and comparative trial between early and late teenagers respect to delivery route and perinatal complications in the Hospital Nacional Daniel A. Carrión, between January 1995 to December 1997. RESULTS: 18,6% of deliveries were in teenagers; 21% were dystocic ones, more frequent in early teenagers (p <0,05). Low birth weight newborns and those with perinatal complications were also frequent in this group (p <0,05). CONCLUSION: Early teenagers had higher risk to present maternal and perinatal complications than late ones.

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2000-03-13

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Yu-Tang Morales J. Perinatal Complications and Delivery Route in Newborns from Early and late Teenage Mothers, 1995-1997. An Fac med [Internet]. 2000 Mar. 13 [cited 2024 Jul. 16];61(1):46-50. Available from: https://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/anales/article/view/4252