Estudio de la mujer embarazada: influencia del estado nutricional materno en el estado de salud del recién nacido en el HospitalManuel Ygnacio Monteros del IESS de la ciudad de Loja en el periodo Enero-Julio del 2019

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Abstract: In the current thesis is investigated the maternal health conditions including anthropometry of the pregnant woman, the presence of chronic diseases prior to pregnancy, and the pathologies developed during, in order to find a relation shipwith the newborn health through anthropometry and diagnostics.The information was taken from the clinical histories from Manuel Ygnacio Monteros Insurance Hospital in a period of 5 months from Janueary to May 2019; a transversal, descriptive and analytical study was carried out.The pregnant population was mostly cataloged with normal (43,5%) pre-pregnancy BMI, followed by a high rate of overweight women (40,5%), there was a high rate of insufficient gestacional weight gain in women with normal BMI (64,2%). Regarding the state of pregestational health, most of the women were healthy and hypothyroidism was the most prevalent disease (7,8%). In pathologies developed durin pregnancy untied those of an infectious nature: urinary tract infection (52,6%), vaginitis (14,9%) and vaginosis (16,9%). The neonates were in the great majority healthy with adequate weight for gestacional age 76%.