Related Articles Outcome of adolescent pregnancies in southwestern Nigeria: a case-control study.

J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2010 Jan 19;

Authors: Adeyinka DA, Oladimeji O, Adekanbi TI, Adeyinka FE, Falope Y, Aimakhu C


Background. The most important health problems among adolescents in the developing countries are increased incidence of preterm labour and delivery, hypertensive disease, anaemia, more severe forms of malaria, obstructed labour, poor maternal nutrition and poor breastfeeding, low birth weight and increased neonatal mortality and morbidity. Objectives. To evaluate the risk factors of adolescent pregnancy, assess and explore the occurrence of specific complications and compare pregnancy complications among adolescent parturients to older controls in a tertiary health centre in order to design appropriate policies and interventions. Method. A retrospective study was conducted in a population of adolescents (age