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Volume 309:621-624 September 15, 1983 Number 11 Next

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Abstract

the risks of morbidity and mortality affect a teenager's choice between termination of a pregnancy through induced abortion and continuation of the pregnancy. To identify these risks, we analyzed information from two separate sets of data collected by the Centers for Disease Control: that of the Joint Program for the Study of Abortion, a multicenter prospective study of nearly 165,000 legally induced abortions; and that of a national surveillance of abortion-related mortality. The rates of major complications associated with abortions in teenagers were 1 to 3 per 1000 suction-curettage procedures and approximately 13 per 1000 saline-administration procedures. The death-to-case rate for teenage women was 1.3 per 100,000 procedures. When the data on procedures were adjusted according to gestational age, teenagers generally had lower rates of morbidity and mortality from induced abortion than older women.

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