Prematurity and low birth weight among Brazilian adolescents and young adults
| Autor: | Eduardo de Souza, Érica da Silva Nogueira, Eduardo Pereira Soares, Ricardo Cristiano Leal da Rocha, Cristina Aparecida Falbo Guazzelli, Antônio Chambô Filho |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Cross-sectional study Birth weight Population Young Adult Age Distribution Pregnancy Medicine Humans Young adult education education.field_of_study business.industry Incidence Infant Newborn Obstetrics and Gynecology Gestational age General Medicine Infant Low Birth Weight medicine.disease Low birth weight Cross-Sectional Studies Premature birth Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Premature Birth Female medicine.symptom business Brazil |
| Zdroj: | Journal of pediatric and adolescent gynecology. 23(3) |
| ISSN: | 1873-4332 |
| Popis: | STUDY OBJECTIVE: To compare the incidence of preterm birth and low birth weight infants in young and older primiparous adolescents versus young adults. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. SETTING: Maternity hospital in Vitoria ES Brazil. PARTICIPANTS: During a 5-year period young primiparous women who delivered a singleton liveborn infant over 22 weeks were interviewed while in the postpartum ward. INTERVENTIONS: A single investigator performed all the individual interviews to collect sociodemographic variables and obtained gestational age and birth weight from the patients charts before discharge. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Participants were divided into 3 groups according to age: young adolescents (10-15 years) older adolescents (16-19 y) and young adults (20-24 y). The chi(2) test was used to compare the rate of preterm birth and low birth weight between the groups and analyze differences in sociodemographic characteristics between the 3 groups. P |
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