Youngest mothers' infants have greatly elevated risk of dying by age one. (Digests).

From: Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Healthy infants who survive their first month of life and who are born to adolescent mothers are at greater risk of dying within their first year than are comparable infants whose mothers are aged 23-29. (1) National data for 1996 and 1997 indicate that between 28 and 365 days after birth (i.e., in the postneonatal period), healthy infants died at a rate of 1.4 per 1,000 full-term births. Infants born to women aged 15 or younger had a substantially higher postneonatal mortality rate (3.2 per 1,000) than those born to 23-29-year-olds (0.8 per 1,000). As a result, the odds of ...

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