Association of Maternal Age With Severe Maternal Morbidity and Mortality in Canada.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Over the past 2 decades, there has been a trend toward increasing maternal age in many high-income countries. Maternal age may lead to greater attendant morbidity and mortality for Canadian mothers.

Objective

To investigate the association of maternal age, adjusting for patient-level and hospital-level factors, with severe maternal morbidity (SMM) and maternal death in Canada.

Design, setting, and participants

A nationwide population-based cohort study of all antepartum, peripartum, and postpartum women and adolescents seen at Canadian acute care hospitals from April 1, 2004, to March 31, 2015. All analyses were completed on September 13, 2018.

Exposures

Maternal age at the index delivery.

Main outcomes and measures

Severe maternal morbidity a

SUBMITTER: Aoyama K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6714030 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature