Are teenage pregnancies at high risk?
The data in our study should throw more light on the current thinking of the obstetrical problems facing teenage mothers, in which some of our results support and others refute several long held beliefs about the risks in teenage pregnancy. Early booking, adequate antenatal care and delivery by trained people should improve the obstetric and perinatal outcome in teenage pregnancies, which is still an unresolved problem inspite of various government programmes in developing countries.
Non-athletes seem to have a higher prevalence of respiratory symptoms. Among former athletes, career characteristics seem to play a crucial role, with special emphasis to its duration, where the most lengthy seem to be more associated with respiratory symptoms.