Pregnancy over 35 years of age

ABSTRACT

This study was conducted on 258 women selected randomly from those seeking delivery services in Obstetric Department of El- Hussein University Hospital. Half of them were aged more than 35 years and considered as a case group while other women were aged 35 years or less and considered as a control group. Both groups were interviewed, examined and investigated. Pregnancy wastage was significantly higher in the case group than in the control group [63% versus 43% respectively]. Several factors contributed to the high wastage in this case group. These included high parity; short inter-pregnancy spacing; had obstetric history; poor antenatal care and low socio-economic standard. Males and multiple pregnancy outcome were significantly higher in the case group while the mean birth weight of babies in this group was slightly lesser than that for the control group