Influência da idade materna sobre os restados perinatais.

Abstract

The increase in the incidence of pregnancy in the extremes of reproductive life, before 20 and after 35 years of age, is a reality. Pregnancy is associated with physiological and anatomical adjustments, which cause changes in the maternal organism, and isolated maternal age has been questioned in several studies as a predisposing factor and / or a cause of changes in perinatal results, in addition to the association between age and pregnancy in the extremes. reproductive life of women are always surrounded by myths and contradictions. Thus, the objective was to identify the influence of maternal age on perinatal outcomes. The information contained in the Declarations of Born Live for the year 2007 in the city of Cajazeiras, Paraíba, was analyzed. Three groups were subdivided: teenage mothers (up to 18 years old), young adult mothers (19 to 35 years old) and adult mothers (over 35 years old). The variables studied were: duration of pregnancy, type of delivery, number of prenatal consultations performed and newborn weight, all of which were correlated with maternal age. The data were analyzed and statistically coded by the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), using the chi-square test, adopting a significance level of 5% for the rejection of the null hypothesis. In a total of 830 DNV, there was no statistical significance between the variable maternal age and perinatal results. There was a prevalence of full-term pregnancies, type of cesarean delivery, low adherence to prenatal care and ideal weight of newborns in most mothers in the study. Through this research it can be observed that maternal age as an isolated factor does not influence the perinatal results, making it necessary to evaluate other characteristics common to both age groups surveyed, such as socioeconomic and socio-demographic levels, in order to verify correlations responsible, mainly, for the high rate of adherence to prenatal care in the study group. It is concluded, therefore, that at the local level, pregnant adolescents and adults possibly submitted to the same socioeconomic conditions and prenatal care will present similar perinatal results in both variables studied.