Young maternal age and the risk of neonatal mortality in rural Nepal.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate the relationship between adolescent pregnancy and neonatal mortality in a nutritionally deprived population in rural Nepal, and to determine mechanisms through which low maternal age may affect neonatal mortality.

Design

Nested cohort study using data from a population-based, cluster-randomized, placebo-controlled trial of newborn skin and umbilical cord cleansing with chlorhexidine.

Setting

Sarlahi District of Nepal.

Participants

Live-born singleton infants of mothers younger than 25 years who were either parity 0 or 1 (n = 10,745).

Main exposure

Maternal age at birth of offspring.

Outcome measure

Crude and adjusted odds ratios of neonatal mortality by maternal age category.

Results

Infants born to mothers aged 12

SUBMITTER: Sharma V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2535853 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature