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Adolescent Pregnancy. Adolescent girls who give birth each year have a much higher risk of. dying from maternal causes compared to women in their 20s and 30s. These risks increase greatly as maternal age decreases, with adolescents. under 16 facing four times the risk of maternal death as women over 20.
1 Overweight adolescents are more likely to become overweight adults than their normal weight peers, with one study showing 80 percent of children who were overweight at 10 to 15 years were obese adults at age 25.  Overweight and obese teenage mothers are at increased risk for gestational diabetes and caesarean delivery.