Resumen de Low birth weight and associated maternal risk factors. Pedro Borras Polyclinic

Yoleidy de la Caridad Lescalle Ortiz, Damarys Cabrera Mejico, Yamaris Mercedes Mena Cabrera, Yudisleidy Quintana González, Milexis Sánchez Pedroso

• Introduction: low birth weight is considered to be any newborn who at the time of delivery weighs less than 2500g, whatever the cause and regardless of the duration of gestation.

  Objective: to describe the maternal risk factors associated with low birth weight at the Pedro Borrás Astorga Polyclinic in the city of Pinar del Rio from January 2020 to May 2022.

  Methods: a descriptive, prospective longitudinal research was carried out on 24 mothers whose product of conception was a low-birth-weight neonate at the Pedro Borras Polyclinic, out of a universe of 529 live births in the period from January 2020 to May 2022, to whom a survey was applied to identify the main risk factors that intervened in its incidence.

  Results: the maternal risk factors associated with LBW were: maternal age, pregnancy without a stable partner, medium school level, smoking as a toxic habit, short inter-gestational period, preterm delivery, chronic pathologies prior to gestation such as Diabetes mellitus, AHT and pregnancy-associated conditions, with emphasis on genitourinary infections and nutritional anemia.

  Conclusions: despite being a small sample, it was possible to establish a significant association between the risk factors found and the occurrence of LBW.