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Adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes in adolescent pregnancy Tetsuya Kawakita, MD1, Kathy Wilson, MD2, Katherine L. Grantz, MD, MS1, Helain J. Landy, MD3, Chun-Chih Huang, PhD4, and Veronica Gomez-Lobo, MD1 1Obstetrics
and Gynecology, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, United
States
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2Obstetrics
and Gynecology, Long Bearch Memorial Medical Group, Long Bearch, CA, United
States 3Obstetrics
and Gynecology, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, United
States 4Department
of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, MedStar Health Research Institute, Hyattsville, MD, United States
Abstract Study Objective—To investigate the outcomes of adolescent pregnancy.
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Design—Retrospective cohort study from the Consortium on Safe Labor between 2002 and 2008. Setting—12 clinical centers with 19 hospitals in the United States. Participants—43,537 nulliparous women