The Effects of Childbirth Age on Maternal and Infant Outcomes in Pregnant Women.

Abstract

BACKGROUND: To investigate the effects of childbirth age on maternal and infant outcomes in pregnant women. METHODS: The clinical data of 4552 singleton parturient women and their newborns treated in the Second People's Hospital of Liaocheng, China from June 2015 to June 2017 were retrospectively analyzed. They were divided into group A (<20 yr old), group B (20-<30 yr old,), group C (30-<35 yr old), group D (35-<40 yr old), group E (≥40 yr old) according to the age of the parturient women. The incidence rates of pregnancy complications and adverse pregnancy outcomes of the pregnant and parturient women and their newborns in each group were compared. RESULTS: =0.002, 0.019, 0.043, 0.015). CONCLUSION: Both low and high age pregnancy can increase the incidence rate of adverse pregnancy outcomes.