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Reproductive outcomes in adolescents who had a previous birth or an induced abortion compared to adolescents' first pregnancies Reime, Birgit; Schücking, Beate A; Wenzlaff, Paul

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Background: Recently, attention has been focused on subsequent pregnancies among teenage mothers. Previous studies that compared the reproductive outcomes of teenage nulliparae and multiparae often did not consider the adolescents' reproductive histories. Thus, the authors compared the risks for adverse reproductive outcomes of adolescent nulliparae to teenagers who either have had an induced abortion or a previous birth. Methods: In this retrospective cohort study we used perinatal data prospectively collected by obstetricians and midwives from 1990–1999 (participation rate 87–98% of all hospitals) in Lower Saxony, Germany. From the 9742 eligible births among adolescents, women with multiple births, >1 previous pregnancies, or a previous spontaneous miscarriage were deleted and 8857 women

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Reproductive outcomes in adolescents who had a previous birth or an induced abortion compared to adolescents' first pregnancies
Creator
Reime, Birgit; Schücking, Beate A; Wenzlaff, Paul
Publisher
BioMed Central
Date Issued
2008-01-31
Description
Background: Recently, attention has been focused on subsequent pregnancies among teenage mothers. Previous studies that compared the reproductive outcomes of teenage nulliparae and multiparae often did not consider the adolescents' reproductive histories. Thus, the authors compared the risks for adverse reproductive outcomes of adolescent nulliparae to teenagers who either have had an induced abortion or a previous birth. Methods: In this retrospective cohort study we used perinatal data prospectively collected by obstetricians and midwives from 1990–1999 (participation rate 87–98% of all hospitals) in Lower Saxony, Germany. From the 9742 eligible births among adolescents, women with multiple births, >1 previous pregnancies, or a previous spontaneous miscarriage were deleted and 8857 women
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Article
Type
Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2016-01-08
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
DOI
10.14288/1.0223186
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/56310
Affiliation
Other UBC; Non UBC
Citation
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 2008 Jan 31;8(1):4
Publisher DOI
10.1186/1471-2393-8-4
Peer Review Status
Reviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty
Copyright Holder
Reime et al.
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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