| HIV-infected teens ‘at high risk for pregnancy, complications’ |
The investigators say the findings are alarming for at least two reasons. First, teen pregnancies - planned or not - put these already vulnerable patients and their fetuses in grave danger for complications. Second, the findings signal that HIV-infected teens and young women continue to practice unsafe sexual behaviors and to have unprotected sex, the researchers said.
Pregnancy rates were especially high in one subgroup of HIV-infected youth - teens who acquired the virus behaviorally rather than during birth. Behaviorally infected teens had five times the number of pregnancies compared to their HIV-negative counterparts and were more prone to premature births and spontaneous abortions than their HIV-negative peers.
More than one-third of the 181 patients in the study got pregnant, some of whom had more than one pregnancy for a total of 96 pregnancies. Premature births were more common among HIV-infected mothers (34 percent), compared with moms in the general population (22 percent) as were spontaneous abortions, 14 percent among HIV-infected moms compared with 9 percent among pregnant women in the general population. The findings have been published in the Feb. 2 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. (ANI)
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