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Instituto Nacional de Perinatología

2007, Number 4

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Perinatol Reprod Hum 2007; 21 (4)

Adolescent pregnancy: an overview in developed and developing nations

Scholl TO

Language: English
References: 62
Page: 193-200
PDF size: 86.58 Kb.


ABSTRACT

The purpose of this article is to draw attention to biological risk factors that operate during adolescent pregnancy. One of these, maternal growth, is common among pregnant adolescents in the United States (30-50%) and is likely to be even more prevalent in areas of the world where childhood malnutrition is or was prevalent. Young still-growing women do not mobilize fat stores during the third trimester. Inhibition of maternal fat oxidation leads to reduced infant birth weight. Continued maternal growth has implications for maternal obesity, for early onset insulin resistance and for an increased risk of chronic disease, particularly Type 2 diabetes, in both the mother and her children.


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