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Gynecologic age is an important risk factor for obstetric and perinatal outcomes in adolescent pregnancies

dc.contributor.coauthorKaplanoglu, Mustafa
dc.contributor.coauthorBulbul, Mehmet
dc.contributor.coauthorKonca, Capan
dc.contributor.coauthorKaplanoglu, Dilek
dc.contributor.coauthorTabak, Mehmet Selcuk
dc.contributor.departmentSchool of Medicine
dc.contributor.kuauthorAta, Mustafa Barış
dc.contributor.schoolcollegeinstituteSCHOOL OF MEDICINE
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-09T23:43:52Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractBackground: Adolescent pregnancy is an important public health problem. Physiological maturity affects obstetric and perinatal outcomes. Almost all assessments of adolescent pregnancies are based on chronological age. Gynecologic age (GA) is defined as age in years at conception minus age at menarche and it is an indicator of physiological maturity. Aim: To compare obstetric and perinatal outcomes between adult and adolescent pregnancies as categorized according to GA. Methods: In this retrospective study, 233 adolescent pregnant women were divided into two groups based on GA <= 3 years (101 women) and GA > 3 years (132 women). Their obstetric and perinatal results were compared with 202 adult pregnancies who gave birth in the same period. Findings: Gestational age at delivery, APGAR scores, birth weight, and incidence of preterm birth, admission to neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), intrauterine growth restriction, low birth weight, and premature rupture of membranes were significantly different between the study groups. Compared to adolescent pregnancies with GA > 3 years, adolescent pregnancies with GA <= 3 years had significantly lower birth weight, gestational age, APGAR scores, and significantly higher incidence of intrauterine growth restriction, low birth weight and admission to NICU. Conclusion: Low GA is associated with an increased rate of obstetric and perinatal complications in adolescent pregnancies. Although the main aim is the prevention of adolescent pregnancies, a detailed evaluation of such pregnancies including determination of the gynecological age together with a multidisciplinary approach may decrease potential complications.
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dc.description.indexedbyScopus
dc.description.indexedbyPubMed
dc.description.issue4
dc.description.openaccessNO
dc.description.publisherscopeInternational
dc.description.sponsoredbyTubitakEuN/A
dc.description.volume28
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.wombi.2015.07.002
dc.identifier.eissn1878-1799
dc.identifier.issn1871-5192
dc.identifier.quartileQ1
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-84947492101
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2015.07.002
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/13566
dc.identifier.wos365158500002
dc.keywordsAdolescent pregnancy
dc.keywordsGynecologic age
dc.keywordsObstetric and preinatal outcomes
dc.keywordsRisk factor
dc.keywordsPhysiological maturity
dc.keywordsYoung maternal age
dc.keywordsTeenage pregnancy
dc.keywordsPreterm labor
dc.keywordsWomen
dc.keywordsBirth
dc.keywordsMothers
dc.keywordsTurkey
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.relation.ispartofWomen and Birth
dc.subjectNursing
dc.subjectObstetrics and gynecology
dc.titleGynecologic age is an important risk factor for obstetric and perinatal outcomes in adolescent pregnancies
dc.typeJournal Article
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local.contributor.kuauthorAta, Mustafa Barış
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