Adverse maternal and perinatal outcomes in adolescent pregnancies: The Global Network’s Maternal Newborn Health Registry study

Althabe, Fernando; Moore, Janet; Gibbons, Luz; Berrueta, Mabel; S. Goudar, Shivaprasad; Chomba, Elwyn; J. Derman, Richard; Patel, Archana; Saleem, Sarah; Pasha, Omrana; Esamai, Fabian; Garcés, Ana; A. Liechty, Edward; Michael Hambidge, K.; F. Krebs, Nancy; L. Hibberd, Patricia; L. Goldenberg, Robert; Koso‐Thomas, Marion; A. Carlo, Waldemar; Luisa Cafferata, María; Buekens, Pierre; M. McClure, Elizabeth

doi:10.1186/1742-4755-12-s2-s8

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Adverse maternal and perinatal outcomes in adolescent pregnancies: The Global Network’s Maternal Newborn Health Registry study

Published in Reproductive Health • Jun 8, 2015

Authors:

Fernando Althabe

Janet Moore

Luz Gibbons

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Adolescent girls between 15 and 19 years give birth to around 16 million babies each year, around 11% of births worldwide. We sought to determine whether adolescent mothers are at higher risk of maternal and perinatal adverse outcomes compared with mothers aged 20-24 years in a prospecti...

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Medicine

Reproductive medicine

Pregnancy

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