Anemia en gestantes con y sin talla baja

• Autores: Munares-García, Oscar, Gómez-Guizado, Guillermo
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2018
• Institución: Universidad de San Martín de Porres
• Repositorio: USMP-Institucional
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.usmp.edu.pe:20.500.12727/6164
• Enlace del recurso: http://www.revsaludpublica.sld.cu/index.php/spu/article/view/877; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12727/6164
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Embarazo; Anemia; Estatura; Perú; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.02.00

ABSTRACT Introduction: Anemia is a public health problem, more serious during pregnancy, and information in this sense regarding women of short stature is not available. Objective: To compare the proportion of anemia in pregnant women with and without short stature. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out in which were used 1 555 847 records of pregnant women from the System of Information on Nutrition Status of the Food and Nutrition Center of the National Health Institute from 2009 to 2013 . These women had been evaluated in health facilities of the Peruvian Ministry of Health. Pregnant women with short stature (≤ 1.40 cm) and anemia (Hb <11 g / dL) were evaluated, with hemoglobin corrected for altitude. Results: 2.2 % presented short stature. 89.6 % were from 15 to 35 years old. 30.1 to 33.7 % of the pregnant women with short stature presented anemia, and 25.1 to 27.5 % of pregnant women without short stature. In this study were enrolled pregnant women with short stature and anemia, age from 11 to 14 years (PR: 2.2 CI 95% 1.9-2.6), being in the third trimester of pregnancy (PR: 1.2 CI 95% 1.1-1.2), whom were attended at a health post (PR: 1.3 IC95% 1.3-1.4), living in the mountains (RP: 2.4 IC95% 2.3-2.5), in rural areas (RP: 1.9 IC95% 1.8-2.0), quintile 1 (RP: 2,3 IC95% 2,2-2,4) and with an altitude from 3 001 to 4 000 meters above the sea level (RP: 2,5 IC95 % 2.5-2.7). Conclusions: Pregnant women with short stature have a higher proportion of anemia than those without short stature, which is mainly associated with adolescence, living in rural areas of the highlands and with quintile 1 of poverty.