Estudio de la mujer embarazada: influencia del estado nutricional materno en el estado de salud del recién nacido en la Clínica San Agustín, durante el periodo enero junio 2019

Abstract

Abstract: The present study aims to describe the maternal nutritional status, the Newborn anthropometry and the health conditions of both, during the period January -June 2019.The universe is constituted by pregnant women and newborns treated at the San Agustín Clinic. Data collection was done through the review of medical records. The data was entered in Microsoft Excel for analysis of results. Finding as relevant data that 28.5% of pregnant women had pre-pregnancy overweight, 26% of pregnant women had an excessive weight gain at the end of pregnancy. 100% of the patients with low weight gave birth through vaginal delivery, 100% of the overweight patients gave birth through cesarean delivery and 100% of the patients who started the pregnancy with obesity had children with high weight for gestational age. The most frequent complications for both the pregnant woman and the newborn were infection of the urinary tract and circular cord.