Adverse perinatal outcome in teenage pregnancies: an analysis of a 5-year period in Southeastern Hungary

Abstract

Objective: To determine the risks of adverse perinatal outcomes of teenage mothers. Material and methods: A retrospective analysis was performed on teenage mothers (under 20 years of age) who delivered in the period of 2010–2014 at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Szeged (study group). All mothers who delivered in Hungary during the same period were studied as a control group. The following parameters were analyzed: demographic data of the mothers, maternal complications, perinatal outcome and congenital malformations of the newborns. The binominal test, Student’s t-test and Poisson’s regression were applied using STATA 9.0 (StataCorp, College Station, TX, USA) statistical software (p