P-181: Correlation between Maternal Complications with Age

Background: It seems pregnant women who are young or those who are near menopause have risk for maternal complications of pregnancy. In this study, it was decided to investigate the correlation between the complications of pregnancy and age in Alzahra hospital in Rasht. Materials and Methods: In this survey the maternal complications of pregnancy (cesarien section, pregnancy induced Hypertension, preterm labor, placenta, placenta previa, Gestational DDM, Abnormal presention and PROM) were studied in patients who referred to Alzahra hospital in Rasht for labor. The patients were divided in 3 subgroups according to their age: A) Patients were between 16-36 years. In this survey only patients were studied whose gestational age was 20 weeks according to LMP. Results: In this survey, 6045 studied files were refered to Alzahra hospital in 1378. Among them, 52 (0.8%) who were under 16, 5406 (89.4%) were between 16 to 35, and 587 (9.8%) were above 35. Distribution of various complications in this population, without considering the age, is as fallows: 6.8% was Hypertension, 0.72% was Geatationaldibetes, 0.56% was placental abruption, 37.4% C/S, 0.46% was lacentaprevia, 3.9% was preterm labor, 3.7% was PROM and 3.6% was abnormal presention we used X2 test in order to indicate the relationship between age and above mentioned complication increases as follows. Hypertension (16.01%) gestational diabetes (2.04%), placental abrution (2.04%), C/S (43.4%), placenta previa (1.19%), preterm labor (7.6%) X2 test indication a significant relationship between each of these complications and age of above 35 (p<0.01). Most of the cases of PROM (5.71%) were in age group of under 16. Conclusion: This survey revealed that most of the complications occur in age group 35 and under 16 respectively. we can conclude that the majority of complication, occur in the upper and lower limit of fertility course.