Labor Complications in Teenage and Elderly Pregnancy in Pharnomsarakarm Hospital

Abstract

The objective of this study was to compare the incidents of perinatal complications between teenage and elderly pregnancies (aged 10-19 or >35 years old) as study cases and those of the mothers aged 20-34 years old as control. The study was conducted in Pharnomsarakarm hospital during the period from October 2012 to September 2013. There were 218 cases (19.3%) of teenage pregnancy, 137 cases (12.1%) of elderly pregnancy were and 774 cases (68.6%) of the control group. It was found that teenage pregnancy had significantly higher risk for anemia than the control group; [RR (95% CI) 1.6 (1.2-2.2), p = 0.02]; whereas the elderly pregnancy group had higher risk of unusual posture of infants [RR (95% CI) 3.7 (1.5-9.2), p = 0.04)]. The results were the same in multivariate analysis with Multiple Logistic Regression.