Maternal age at birth and daughters’ subsequent childlessness

O-27: Maternal Age and Low Birth Weight

Background: The weight of fetus at birth is widely acceptable parameter that can demonstrate the health of mother. Low birth weight (LBW) (birth weight less than 2500g) is significantly related to the neonatal survival and postnatal morbidity. Adolescence pregnancy is an important risk factor of LBW. The main objective of this study was therefore to determine the prevalence of LBW and relations...

Maternal age at child birth, birth order, and suicide at a young age: a sibling comparison.

Previous studies have reported strong associations between birth order, maternal age, and suicide, but these results might have been confounded by socioeconomic and other factors. To control for such factors, we compared suicide risk between siblings and studied how maternal age at child birth and birth order influenced risk in a cohort study of 1,690,306 Norwegians born in 1967-1996 who were f...

Maternal age at first birth and adolescent education in Brazil.

BACKGROUND Brazil has witnessed dramatic changes in its fertility patterns in recent decades. The decline to below-replacement fertility has been accompanied by increases in the proportion of children born to young mothers. Yet we know little about the well-being of children born to young mothers in Brazil. OBJECTIVE AND METHODS Using data from the 2006 Pesquisa Nacional de Demografia e Saúde...

Maternal age at birth and under-5 mortality in Nigeria.

OBJECTIVE The paper examined the impact of maternal age at birth on under-5 death in Nigeria. METHOD Secondary data were generated from the 2003 Nigeria Demographic and Health Surveys in examining the relationship between maternal age at birth and under-5 mortality risk. Relationships between variables were tested through bivariate and logistic analyses. RESULTS Out of 7620 sampled women fo...

Morbidity and mortality associated with older maternal age at birth