What's so bad about teenage pregnancy?
Open Access
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- review article
- Published by BMJ in BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health
- Vol. 27 (1), 36-41
- https://doi.org/10.1783/147118901101194877
Abstract
A systematic literature review identified the most frequently cited medical consequences of teenage pregnancy as anaemia, pregnancy-induced hypertension, low birth weight, prematurity, intra-uterine growth retardation and neonatal mortality. Critical appraisal suggested that increased risks of these outcomes were predominantly caused by the social, economic, and behavioural factors that predispose some young women to pregnancy. Maternal age less than 16 years was associated with a modest (1.2-2.7 fold) increase in prematurity, low birth weight and neonatal death.Keywords
This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
- Very and moderate preterm births: are the risk factors different?BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 1999
- Sexual health of teenagers in England and Wales: analysis of national dataBMJ, 1999
- Teenage pregnancies and risk of late fetal death and infant mortalityBJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 1999
- Obstetric outcome of teenage pregnancies.Human Reproduction, 1998
- Young maternal age and depressive symptoms: results from the 1988 National Maternal and Infant Health Survey.American Journal of Public Health, 1998
- Obstetric Complications in Young TeenagersSouthern Medical Journal, 1991
- Risks in pregnant teenagersInternational Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 1990
- Teenage deliveries in a swedish population in the 1970′sActa Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, 1983
- THE OBSTETRIC OUTCOME OF TEENAGE PREGNANCYBJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 1981
- Obstetric Aspects of Adolescent Pregnancy and DeliveryInternational Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 1978