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Tab 19
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- Perinatal complications were noted in 13,889 births or one in three (34.3%) live births in 2000.
- The proportion of births that had perinatal complications was highest (38.6%) in births to teenage mothers, and tended to decrease as the maternal age groups increased, from 34.6% in the 20-29 age group to 33.6% in the 30-39 age group. For mothers over 40 years of age, this proportion was 34.8%.
- Intrauterine hypoxia and birth asphyxia accounted for more than half (51.1%) of the perinatal complications noted in 2000. Complications of pregnancy, labour and delivery plus short gestation accounted for more than one out of four (28.3%) of the perinatal complications. Long gestation and high birth weight was noted as a perinatal complication in less than one in ten births (8.6%).
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