title: [Pregnancy in adolescent mothers (between the ages of 15 and 18). Neonatal results].
abstract: A total of 61 infants of adolescent mothers (aged 15 to 18 years) were compared at birth with two control groups of 78 infants born of nonadolescents (aged 19 to 30 years). Control group I were adults mothers, married, with adequate prenatal care, without gestational risk factors, and similar parity to adolescents mothers. Control group II were adult mothers with prenatal care, risk factors during pregnancy, marital status and parity in like proportions to adolescent mothers. Only statistically significant difference was that adolescent mothers delivered infants whose mean weight was 180 g less (p less than 0.01) than infants of group I, and 152 g less (p less than 0.05) than infants of group II. Prematurity, low-birth-weight, low Apgar score, and difficulties at birth, had not greater incidence in adolescent group.
authors.affiliation: Hospital Camino de Santiago, Ponferrada, León.
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Gómez Carrasco
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Díez Fernández
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001034:Apgar Score; D001724:Birth Weight; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007230:Infant, Low Birth Weight; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature; D011247:Pregnancy; D011253:Pregnancy in Adolescence
vernacular_title: Embarazo en madre adolescente (quince a dieciocho años). Resultado neonatal.