title: [Teenage pregnancy outcome].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to compare delivery and pregnancy follow-up among adolescent and non-adolescent pregnant women whose delivery occurred in a tertiary hospital from Região de Lisboa (Portugal).
  
  
  METHODS
  retrospective study with 10,656 deliveries. Pregnancy follow-up, delivery type, need of episiotomy and severe lacerations, Apgar index at the fifth minute and the delivery weight have been evaluated. The pregnant women were divided into two groups, over and under 20 years old. The group with women under 20 was further subdivided in pregnant women under or over 16. The chi2 test has been used for statistical analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  adolescents presented worse follow-up: first appointment after 12 weeks (46.4 versus 26.3%) and less than four appointments (8.1 versus 3.1%), less dystocia (21.5 versus 35.1%), less caesarian sections (10.6 versus 20.7%), and lower need for inducing labor (16.5 versus 26.5%). There was no significant difference concerning gestational age at delivery and ratio of low weight newborns. Among adolescents, the ones under 16 had more low weight newborns (12 versus 7.4%) and more deliveries between 34 and 37 weeks (10.8 versus 4.2%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  in a hospital attending adolescents with social and psychological support, the fact of them having had a worse follow-up in the pre-natal phase, their performance has not been worse. Nevertheless, special attention might be given to pregnant women under 16.
authors.affiliation: Hospital Garcia d'Orta, Almada, Portugal.
authors.forename: José
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Metello
authors.forename: Mariana
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Torgal
authors.forename: Rui
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Viana
authors.forename: Luísa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Martins
authors.forename: Miguel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Maia
authors.forename: Estér
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Casal
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hermida
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011247:Pregnancy; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D011253:Pregnancy in Adolescence; D012189:Retrospective Studies