Maternal Growth During Adolescent Pregnancy

Scholl, Theresa O.; Hediger, Mary L.; Schall, Joan I.; Mead, Janet P.; Fischer, Richard

doi:10.1001/jama.1995.03530010040029

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“…For example, Fraser et al' conducted a study to determine whether younger age confers an increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes, independent of sociocultural factors such as adequacy of prenatal care, educational level, and marital status. After statistically adjusting for variations in sociocultural factors, the authors4 found an increased risk for young teen-age mothers ( 1 [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] to deliver low birth weight infants.…”

Section: Combln Ing Biological and Sociocultural Factorsmentioning

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The Risk of Teen Mothers Having Low Birth Weight Babies: Implications of Recent Medical Research for School Health Personnel

Roth

Hendrickson

Schilling³

et al. 1998

Journal of School Health

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This article reviews recent medical research on the relationship between young maternal age and the incidence of low birth weight infants. One line of research, "nature," emphasizes biological factors in early adolescence such as immaturity of the female reproductive system and inadequate prenatal weight gain. "Nurture," another research focus, stresses sociocultural attributes of teen mothers such as poverty and minority status. Young maternal age alone does not explain the higher rates of low birth weight infants born to adolescent females. Both biological and sociocultural factors, plus lifestyle choices made by adolescents, combine to raise or lower the risk of delivering a low birth weight infant. School health personnel need to link their health promotion efforts to those of other community organizations serving adolescents and their families.

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The Risk of Teen Mothers Having Low Birth Weight Babies: Implications of Recent Medical Research for School Health Personnel

Roth

Hendrickson

Schilling³

et al. 1998

Journal of School Health

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“…In order to examine the influence of maternal growth on nutrient transmission to the fetus, cord bloods were obtained at delivery from teenage gravidas and assayed for ferritin and serum folate 27 . Of the 176 teenagers studied, 86 were ultimately found to be growing by KHMD and 86 were not.…”

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Maternal Growth and Fetal Growth: Pregnancy Course and Outcome in the Camden Study

Scholl

Hediger

Schall

1997

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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“…This explanation is consistent with analyses of human growth. Scholl and colleagues (Scholl et al, 1994(Scholl et al, , 1995 indicate that maternal-fetal competition, particularly for micronutrients, may be responsible for low birth weight in adolescent mothers. Similarly, Frisancho et al (1985) found that infants born to females who are still growing tend to have low birth weights.…”

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Evolution of human growth spurts

Leigh

1996

Am. J. Phys. Anthropol.

146

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This study investigates subadult growth spurts in a large sample of anthropoid primates, including humans. Analyses of body mass growth curves show that humans are not unique in the expression of female and male body mass growth spurts. Subadult growth spurts are observed in both New World and Old World anthropoid primates and are more common in males than in females. Allometric analyses of growth spurts indicate that many aspects of primate growth spurts are strongly correlated with species size. Small species tend not to exhibit growth spurts. Although male and female scaling patterns for velocity and size measures are comparable, scaling relations of variables that measure the timing of growth spurts differ by sex. These patterns can be related to sexual differences in life histories. Scaling analyses further show that humans do not depart substantially from patterns that describe other anthropoid primates. Thus, in relative terms, human growth spurts are not exceptional compared to this sample of primates. The long absolute delay in the initiation of the human growth spurt may be of substantial evolutionary importance and serves to distinguish humans from other primates. In essence, humans exhibit growth spurts that are comparable to other primates in many respects. However, human growth spurts are shifted to very late absolute ages.

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Maternal Growth During Adolescent Pregnancy

Cited by 18 publications

References 4 publications

The Risk of Teen Mothers Having Low Birth Weight Babies: Implications of Recent Medical Research for School Health Personnel

The Risk of Teen Mothers Having Low Birth Weight Babies: Implications of Recent Medical Research for School Health Personnel

Maternal Growth and Fetal Growth: Pregnancy Course and Outcome in the Camden Study

Evolution of human growth spurts

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