Outcome of teenage pregnancy in Maputo, Mozambique.

Objective: To evaluate the perinatal outcome of teenage pregnancies in comparison with a population of older, high-risk women.

Method: Data about 15,207 high-risk women delivered during 1989 at the Central Hospital of Maputo, Mozambique, were collected retrospectively from the clinical records. Of these women 2185 were less than 19 years old.