Aim: To examine the obstetrical outcomes among primiparous and multiparous Pakistani advanced maternal age women. Methods: A retrospective cohort study conducted at teaching hospitals of KVSS Site Hospital Karachi. From the hospital records, obstetrical characteristics of 585 consecutive women aged 40 or above who delivered from January 2009 to December 2013 were compared with those of 1816 you...

Objective. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of maternal age on prenatal and obstetric outcome in multiparaous women. Materials and Methods. A retrospective case control study was conducted, including women aged 40 years and over (study group, n = 97) who delivered at 20 week's gestation or beyond and women aged 20-29 years (control group, n = 97). Results. The mean age of women ...

conclusions the risk of ra increased with delayed menarche, advanced maternal age at first delivery and early age at menopause. however, longer duration of breast-feeding, parity, large number of children and consumption of ocs were found as protective independent variables against ra. methods this case-control study was conducted on 231 patients with ra and 238 controls among females aged 26 -...

Advanced maternal age is the only well-established risk factor for trisomy 21 Down syndrome (DS), but the basis of the maternal-age effect is not known. In a population-based, case-control study of DS, women who reported surgical removal of all or part of an ovary or congenital absence of one ovary were significantly more likely to have delivered a child with DS than were women who did not repo...

BACKGROUND Maternal age at pregnancy is increasing worldwide as well as preterm birth. However, the association between prematurity and advanced maternal age remains controversial. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of maternal age on the occurrence of preterm birth after controlling for multiple known confounders in a large birth cohort. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective cohort study using data fro...

Background: During pregnancy, the risk of severe manifestation COVID-19 with a worse maternal outcome can become higher because alteration in immune system and physiological function. In infection, several studies also stated increased disease advanced age (AMA). Considering that death case rates advanced-aged pregnant women were high, special attention should be focused on this matter. There w...

OBJECTIVE To study the prevalence of potentially life-threatening maternal conditions and near miss in Brazil according to maternal age. METHODS A secondary analysis of the 2006 Brazilian demographic health survey database using a validated questionnaire to evaluate maternal morbidity with a focus on age extremes. The study included 5,025 women with at least 1 live birth in the 5-year referen...

BACKGROUND Preeclampsia is a frequent syndrome and its cause has been linked to multiple factors, making prevention of the syndrome a continuous challenge. One of the suggested risk factors for preeclampsia is advanced maternal age. In the Western countries, maternal age at first delivery has been steadily increasing, yet few studies have examined women of advanced maternal age with preeclampsi...

BACKGROUND Although a number of studies have investigated correlations of maternal age with birth outcomes, an extensive assessment using age as a continuous variable is lacking. In the current study, we estimated age-specific risks of adverse birth outcomes in childbearing women. METHOD National population-based data containing maternal and neonatal information were derived from the Health P...