Young adolescent girls are at high risk for adverse pregnancy outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa: an observational multicountry study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

One of Africa's most important challenges is to improve maternal and neonatal health. The identification of groups at highest risk for adverse pregnancy outcomes is important for developing and implementing targeted prevention programmes. This study assessed whether young adolescent girls constitute a group at increased risk for adverse birth outcomes among pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa.

Setting

Data were collected prospectively as part of a large randomised controlled clinical trial evaluating intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy (NCT00811421-Clinical Trials.gov), conducted between September 2009 and December 2013 in Benin, Gabon, Mozambique and Tanzania.

Participants

Of 4749 participants, pregnancy outcomes were collected for 4

SUBMITTER: Mombo-Ngoma G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4932321 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature