ASSOCIATION OF YOUNG MATERNAL AGE WITH ADVERSE REPRODUCTIVE OUTCOMES
ASSOCIATION OF YOUNG MATERNAL AGE WITH ADVERSE REPRODUCTIVE OUTCOMES
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DOI:
10.1056/nejm199504273321701
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发表时间:
1995-04-27
影响因子:
158.5
通讯作者:
WARD, RH
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作者:
FRASER, AM;BROCKERT, JE;WARD, RH
Background. Pregnancy in adolescence is associated with an excess risk of poor outcomes, including low birth weight and prematurity, Whether this association simply reflects the deleterious sociodemographic environment of most pregnant teenagers or whether biologic immaturity is also causally implicated is not known,Methods. To determine whether a young age confers an intrinsic risk of adverse outcomes of pregnancy, we performed stratified analyses of 134,088 white girls and women, 13 to 24 years old, in Utah who delivered singleton, first-born children between 1970 and 1990. Relative risk for subgroups of this study population was examined to eliminate the confounding influence of marital status, educational level, and the adequacy of prenatal care, The adjusted relative risk for the entire study group was calculated as the weighted average of the stratum-specific risks.Results. Among white married mothers with educational levels appropriate for their ages who received adequate prenatal care, younger teenage mothers (13 to 17 years of age) had a significantly higher risk (P