Introduction: Prenatal care fully monitors and evaluates the pregnant woman and the fetus, detecting early complications during pregnancy. The World Health Organization recommends a minimum of 8 prenatal check-ups; However, there are still pregnant women with inadequate prenatal care coverage. Objective: Identify the sociodemographic and obstetric factors associated with inadequate coverage of prenatal care in Peruvian women. Materials and methods: Cross-sectional study with 18,574 Peruvian women between 15 and 49 years old, participants in the 2022 Demographic and Family Health Survey. A multivariate analysis was performed with logistic regression. Results: Women without a partner (RPa:1.11), without education (RPa:1.44), secondary education (RPa:1.11), not affiliated with public health insurance (RPa:1.12), with ≥5 members in the household (RPa:1.09), who did not plan their pregnancy...

Introduction: The pandemic caused by the coronavirus disease 2019 represented a framework of health, social and economic crisis at a global level, generating great human losses, which is why the need arises to determine the prognostic factors, including some accessible, rapid and low-cost, which may be useful in predicting potentially serious cases. Objective: Determine if the neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio predicts the severity of COVID-19 according to the severity classification of the Ministry of Health. Materials and methods: A retrospective cohort study was carried out, using consecutive sampling, 200 patients with a confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19 were included upon admission for emergencies at Hospital III EsSalud Chimbote, whose recruitment period was from February to May 2021 with a 30-day follow-up. An multivariate analysis was performed with binary logistic regression in the R Co...