Estado nutricional pregestacional y ganancia de peso materno durante la gestación y su relación con el peso, longitud al nacer, en el Centro de Salud de Nabón.

Abstract

The following investigation's objective is to determine the influence of pregestational nutritional status according to IMC criteria, maternal weight gain during pregnancy and its relation with weight and length at the Nabon health center. The study was a nonexperimental

type of retrospective cross-sectional design involving 164 pregnant women and newborns who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The data collected from pregnant women were pre-pregnancy weight, weight gain, data such as birth weight, length and cephalic perimeter hemoglobin, and blood sugar in newborns. The data were analyzed according to the descriptive statistics and statistical tests of statistical significance through covariance as: the coefficient of determination and statistical significance. It was found that there is a statistically significant correlation (p = <, 0001 *) between the pregestational IMC and birth weight, in relation to the weight gain in pregnancy it was found that there is a statistically significant relationship (p = 0.0276). It is concluded that there is a correlation between pre-pregnancy IMC (p = <0001*), and weight gain in pregnancy with birth weight (p = 0.0276), it is important to carry out more research in these vulnerable groups for application of nutritional programs.