[Analysis of teenage pregnancy outcome and delivery between 2000 and 2006].
OBJECTIVE
The aim of our analysis was to retrospectively analyze the course of pregnancy and delivery in the group of Polish women, aged from 15 to 25.


METHODS
We analyzed 345 woman, aged 15-25, treated in the KMMPiG ICZMP in Lodz between the years 2000 and 2006. The investigated patients were divided into two groups: 15-18-year-olds constituted the research group and 19-25-year-olds, that is the control group. Factors which have been taken into consideration included: pregnancy history, ultrasound examinations, delivery mode, birth weight and the APGAR score.


RESULTS
62.7% (n = 69) delivered naturally, 30.9% (n = 34) by caesarean section and 6.36% (n = 7) by forceps in the group of adolescents and 67.6% (n = 159), 32.4% (n = 71) and 2% (n = 5) (p = 0.379; OR 1.27) in the control group. 25.5% (n = 26) of the adolescent women (< 37 week of gestation, WG) and 20.7% (n = 48) of the controls (p = 0.39; OR 1.31) had a pre-term delivery. There were 3.9% multiparas in the group of teenagers and 20.7% among adolescents (p = 0.001). Fetal malformations were diagnosed prenatally in 13.7% (n = 14) of newborns delivered by adolescents mothers and 11.6% (n = 27) in the control group (p = 0.591; OR 1.21).


CONCLUSIONS
Despite the dangers connected with the young age of the mother, the results of this study allow us to state that teenage pregnancy usually has a correct course and does not differ significantly from the pregnancy of an adult woman.
Rycel
Magdalena
M
Klinika Medycyny Matczyno-Płodowej i Ginekologii (KMMPiG), Instytut Centrum Zdrowia Matki Polki (ICZMP) w Łodzi.
Wilczyński
Jan
J
Sobala
Wojciech
W
Nowakowska
Dorota
D
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008423:Maternal Age; D007744:Obstetric Labor Complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D016017:Odds Ratio; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011253:Pregnancy in Adolescence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D016387:Women's Health; D055815:Young Adult