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TABLE 19
PERINATAL COMPLICATIONS IN LIVE BIRTHS BY AGE OF MOTHER
British Columbia, 1996-2000 and 2001

Table, Perinatal Complications in Live Births by Age of Mother

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HIGHLIGHTS TO TABLE 19
  • Perinatal complications were noted in 13,364 births or one in three (33.1%) live births in 2001.

  • The proportion of births that had perinatal complications was highest (39.1%) in births to teenage mothers, and tended to be fairly constant as the maternal age groups increased, from 32.7% in the 20-29 year age group to 32.9% in the 30-39 year age group. For mothers 40 years of age and over, this proportion was 34.5%.

  • Intrauterine hypoxia and birth asphyxia accounted for slightly less than half (49.9%) of the perinatal complications noted in 2001. Complications of pregnancy, labour and delivery plus short gestation accounted for 30 percent of the perinatal complications. Long gestation and high birth weight was noted as a perinatal complication in less than one in ten births (9.2%).