RESUMO
PIP: Pregnancy outcome in2403 adolescents who were 15 years of age or younger at the time of conception and who received their care at the Chicago Board of Health were studied. Comparison was made with the pregnancy outcome of 4400 adolescents of the same group who had not received care at the Chicago Board of Health. Some of these patients received private care, some clinic care, and some had no prenatal care at all. The comparison was made in respect to hebdomadal and neonatal mortality, prematurity, and those conditions leading to infant mortality which had direct relationship to obstetric care. The 2403 pregnancies in Board of Health patients resulted in 2368 live births, 28 stillbirths, and 18 spontaneous abortions. The premature rate was 13.3%. T oxemia occurred in 5.1% of the patients. The hebdomadal mortality rate did not receive prenatal care at the Chicago Board of Health clinics. The toxemia rate was no higher in the average obstetric population. It is concluded on the basis of this study, exclusive of the variables involved such as social and emotional factors, that the young adolescent female who attends a Chicago Board of Health clinic and who receives adequate maternal care is not at high obstetric risk.^ieng
