Adolescence pregnancy as a challenge of modern perinatology

Abstract

Nearly 16 million teenage girls aged 15–19 and two million girls under 15 becoming pregnant each year [1]. Due to possible problems and complications adolescent pregnancies should be treated as a high-risk pregnancy. The most common obstetric pathologies in young mothers, includes preeclampsia, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, fetal growth restriction and premature birth, as a consequence of immaturity, especially uterine immaturity. The risk of preeclampsia and eclampsia among this group is almost two times higher than among 20 — to 24-year-old women. Preterm labor occurs with a frequency of about 15%. Additionally, young mothers have a significantly increased risk of having extremely premature babies and newborns with extremely low birth weight [2–4].