Percentiles of Pregnancy Outcomes with Maternal Age

Abstract

Background: Maternal age is one of the prime factors in healthy pregnancy outcomes. Extremes of maternal age will lead to adverse effects on the growth trajectory of fetus and placenta. Hence, current study assessed the impact of maternal age with the percentiles of birth weight and placental morphometry. Materials and Method: Study was conducted on 391 subjects in a teaching hospital of North Karnataka, India for a period of 6 months. Ethical clearance was obtained. Data was collected by using standard pretested proforma. Percentiles of the birth weight and placental morphometry in different maternal age has been expressed in table, and Box plots have been plotted. Result: Age-wise distribution of 391 mothers reveals that 7.2 percents were less than 20 years of age and 7.6 percent more than 30 years and above, with mean 23.6 and SD 3.7 years. Percentiles of the birth weight and placental morphometry did not show any consistent relationship with increasing groups of age. Conclusion: The study conveys that in different groups of maternal age percentiles of birth weight exhibited consistent increasing trends only in higher percentiles (75th to 95th) whereas, percentiles of placental morphometry did not exhibit consistent relationship with mother’s age.