Urinary tract infection and threatened preterm delivery in teenage pregnancies of a Peruvian Hospital: Infección del tracto urinario y amenaza de parto pretérmino en gestantes adolescentes de un Hospital peruano

• Autores: Abanto-Bojorquez, Dan, Soto-Tarazona, Alonso
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2020
• Institución: Universidad Ricardo Palma
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad Ricardo Palma
• Lenguaje: español; inglés
• OAI Identifier: oai:oai.revistas.urp.edu.pe:article/3056
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.urp.edu.pe/index.php/RFMH/article/view/3056
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Preterm labor; Genital system infections; Teen; Pregnancy complications; Parto prematuro; Infecciones del sistema genital; Adolecente; Complicaciones del embarazo

Introduction: The threatened preterm delivery can cause serious outcomes, so it is necessary toevaluate its causes. Objective: to determine if urinary tract infection (UTI) is a factor associated withthe threatened preterm delivery in pregnant teenages at the Hospital Sergio E. Bernales 2018 – 2019.Methods: Observational analytical case-control study. The study included pregnant teenages admittedto the gynecology and obstetrics service of the Hospital Sergio E. Bernales 2018 – 2019. Crude andadjusted ORs were calculated for possible confounding factors based on logistic regression models.Considering the p <0.05 value as significant. Results: The median age was 18 years. The results ofthe adjusted logistic regression model were that the threatened preterm delivery had a significantassociation with UTI (OR = 2.68, 95% CI: 1.3–5.3) and RPM (OR = 15, 95 CI. %: 5.9–37.9). Conclusion:Urinary tract infection is a factor associated with the threatened preterm delivery in pregnant teens.