European Scientific Journal July 2016 edition vol.12, No.21 ISSN: 1857 – 7881 (Print) e - ISSN 1857- 7431 25 Resultados Perinatales De Hijos De Madres Adolescentes, Comparados Con Hijos De Madres No Adolescentes En Un Hospital De Segundo Nivel En México Genaro Vega-Malagón Tannia De Icaza-Llera Alma Becerril-Santos Javier Ávila-Morales Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Facultad Mexicana de Medicina de la Universidad La Salle, Hospital de Especialidades del Niño y la Mujer de SESEQ, México doi: 10.19044/esj.2016.v12n21p25 URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.19044/esj.2016.v12n21p25 Abstract OBJECTIVE: To determine perinatal outcomes of children of adolescent mothers against the ones of children of non-adolescent mothers in a second level class hospital in Mexico. METHODOLOGY: Case-control studies applied at “Hospital del Niño y la Mujer” from the National Health Department of Queretaro, Qro. from September 1 st , 2015 to January 30 th , 2016. A sample of 60 medical records of teenage pregnant women was studied. In addition to 90 medical records of women between 20 to 35 years old who had an obstetric event. The analysis was performed using descriptive and inferential statistics. With a 95% confidence interval and a value of p < 0.05. RESULTS: The average age range was 17.38 and 25.33 respectively. The quantitative variables, statistically significant with a p<0.05, were: weight and Apgar score one minute after birth, whereas in weeks of gestation, height and Apgar score five minutes after birth and after days of hospitalization, there was no change. The most frequent qualitative variables among adolescent women were: complications during childbirth (15%), complications with the newborn (18.3%), and route of termination of pregnancy by caesarean section (70%), while in pregnant women between 20 to 35 years old, the complications during the pregnancy were more frequent (51.1%). CONCLUSIONS: Pregnancy among adolescent women continues to have a higher mortality rate than in 20 to 35 year-old women, although it is less