Teen-age obstetrics
| Autor: | Theodore B. Woutersz, S. Leon Israel |
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| Rok vydání: | 1963 |
| Předmět: |
Pregnancy
education.field_of_study medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Anemia Obstetrics Incidence (epidemiology) media_common.quotation_subject education Population Obstetrics and Gynecology Fertility medicine.disease Intercurrent disease behavior and behavior mechanisms medicine Presentation (obstetrics) business human activities Developed country media_common |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 85:659-668 |
| ISSN: | 0002-9378 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0002-9378(63)90313-2 |
| Popis: | A comparison was drawn between 3,995 teen-aged obstetric patients and that of 40,709 parturients of whom the teen-agers were a part (9.8 per cent). Among the teen-aged patients a distinctly higher incidence was noted in the occurrence of pre-eclampsia and anemia, as well as a somewhat increased incidence of one-day fever, puerperal morbidity, and labors in excess of 20 hours. Cesarean section was performed less frequently among the teen-agers. Essentially no difference was observed in fetal, neonatal, and perinatal mortality. The same was true of the incidence of abnormal presentation, transfusion, laceration, hemorrhage, intercurrent disease, and dystocia. This study has re-emphasized the fact that teen-age obstetrics presents no greater challenge than obstetrics in general. It has also reaffirmed a well-known observation—the nonwhite woman is heir to many more obstetric complications than her white counter-part. |
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