title: Gynecologic disease in young, sexually active women.
abstract: There has been a significant change in adolescent sexual behavior in the past decade. This report of 1,594 young, sexually active women, primarily from middle and upper socioeconomic backgrounds, identifies the obstetric and gynecologic problems characteristic of the group. While supposedly in a low-risk category these patients displayed a high incidence of cervical epithelial abnormality, problem pregnancy, and other obstetric and gynecologic abnormality. The incidence of veneral disease  was somewhat lower than anticipated.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D002584:Cervix Uteri / Q000473:pathology; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005831:Genital Diseases, Female / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D007087:Illinois; D007182:Income; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D012749:Sexually Transmitted Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology; D002578:Uterine Cervical Dysplasia / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology