Outcome of adolescent pregnancy at a university hospital in Jordan.
OBJECTIVE
To determine whether adolescent pregnancies are associated with increased risk of adverse obstetrical outcome.


METHODS
This is a retrospective study comparing the obstetric outcome of 267 adolescent pregnancies to 500 adult women pregnancies during the same period at a university hospital.


RESULTS
Medical and obstetric complications including pregnancy-induced hypertension, diabetes mellitus, anemia, placenta praevia, abruptio placenta and multiple pregnancy were not different in both groups, where there was a significant increase of preterm labor in adolescent pregnancies compared to adult pregnancies (14.6 and 8%, respectively). Moreover, adolescent pregnancies when compared to adult pregnancies, were associated with a significantly higher incidence of forceps delivery (4.5 and 1.4%, respectively), neonatal intensive care unit admission (22.7 and 13.5%, respectively) and a lower incidence of caesarean section (7.1 and 16.8%, respectively).


CONCLUSIONS
Adolescent pregnancies are associated with a favorable obstetric outcome apart from the higher incidence of preterm labor.
Al-Ramahi
Muataz
M
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Jordan University Hospital, P.O. Box 35295, Amman, 11180, Jordan. muataz@hotmail.com
Saleh
Shawqi
S
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001034:Apgar Score; D036861:Delivery, Obstetric / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007597:Jordan / Q000453:epidemiology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D011253:Pregnancy in Adolescence; D012189:Retrospective Studies