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Pregnancy risks are greater for young teens, preteens - C C - Nov 4, 2022
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2022/11/04/6851667577768/
INTRO: When preteen children or very young teenagers become pregnant, they face higher rates of complications and a greater risk of winding up in the intensive care unit than older teens do, a new study finds.
The question about what happens when a young girl goes through pregnancy and delivery takes on more relevance after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June and subsequent abortion restrictions were enacted in numerous states.
For this study, researchers examined more than 90,000 delivery records for pregnant girls ages 10 to 19, comparing outcomes for the youngest girls with those of teens who are older.
"Our study discovered that when it comes to childbirth, a pregnant child or very young adolescent is not simply a 'little' adolescent,' said study author Katherine Goodman, an assistant professor of epidemiology and public health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
"We found 10- to 13-year-olds had a 56% higher risk of preterm delivery and a 32% higher risk of cesarean delivery, compared to those ages 14 to 17," Goodman said in a school news release.
Data came from the Premier Healthcare Database, a national resource that includes data on about one-fourth of all U.S. hospital discharges. The researchers studied cases from January 2019 through May 2021.
In pregnant girls ages 10 to 13, preterm delivery occurred in 18.5% of cases compared to 11.6% in teens ages 14 to 17 and 10.5% in older teens ages 18 to 19.
In the youngest girls, about 22% had a cesarean delivery compared to 16.4% of girls ages 14 to 17 and 20.1% of teens ages 18 to 19.
Even when accounting for race, ethnicity, type of insurance and obesity status, the youngest girls had significantly increased pregnancy risks compared to those who were just a few years older... (MORE - details)
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Cynic's Corner: Certainly not to dismissed as facthood simply because it is Med science driven/motivated by political ire and blacklash. But still a kind of consclusion and highlilghting of "duh" commonplace knowledge. Yet absolutely necessary for the intellectual class, due to the latter processing reality through the filter of mediated literature and formatted reports rather than direct, personal experiences. If _X_ isn't converted to academic papers or news distributed through proper channels, and establishment lectures and proseltyzing, then it's of either dubious or non-existent slash false status.
RE: Pregnancy risks are greater for young teens, preteens - Syne - Nov 4, 2022
Since when are preterm and cesarean deliveries "risks"? Both are fairly common at any age. More common at a younger age doesn't equate to more risky.