Nutritional status in pregnancy: Preliminary study.

• Autor: Mendoza Arana, Pedro
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2015
• Institución: Sociedad Peruana de Obstetricia y Ginecología
• Repositorio: Revista SPOG - Revista Peruana de Ginecología y Obstetricia
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.spog:article/1674
• Enlace del recurso: http://www.spog.org.pe/web/revista/index.php/RPGO/article/view/1674
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto

We performed a cross-sectional study to estimate the prevalence of malnutrition instant pregnant in a poor urban area of Lima. The sample included 61 pregnant women and 75 women control over 15 group, not pregnant, apparently healthy. The prevalence of protein-energy malnutrition in pregnant women of 29.6% was found, using the criterion of percentage weight / size for gestational age according to the nomogram Rosso, and a prevalence of 26.7% in non-pregnant, and this difference was not statistically significant . It also reports a proportion of pregnant women under 20 years of 11.5% and 49.2% of pregnant women had at least one prenatal care. We conclude that the prevalence of malnutrition in pregnant women is high and would be related primarily to pre-gestational nutritional status.