Abstract

CASTANO-CASTRILLON, José Jaime et al. Relation between weight of newborns and some biological and socioeconomic variables of the mother in childbirths taken care in a first level of complexity in the city of Manizales, Colombia, 1999 to 2005. Rev Colomb Obstet Ginecol [online]. 2008, vol.59, n.1, pp.20-25. ISSN 0034-7434.

Objective: describing the existing relationship between birth weight and some of the mother’s socioeconomic and biological variables. Materials and methods: a Cross-sectional study wasperformed.1,892medicalrecordswerereviewed concerning deliveries at ASSBASALUD ESE’s La Enea clinic from 1999 to 2005. The variable sstudied were the newborn’s birth-weight and gender and the mother’s age, education, socioeconomic status, origin, type of conjugal relationship and fillingin the Latin-American Perinatology Centre’s form (CLAP-Centro Latinoamericano de Perinatología). Results: low birth-weight prevalence was 4.4%. Being in an unstable marriage (p=0.03) and the new-born being female (p=0.00) were the variables having most statistical significance. Conclusion: low birth-weight prevalence was less than that described in other Latin-America populations. No association was found with other previously-described factors.

Keywords : birth weight; risk factor; parturition.

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