Estado nutricional materno na gestação, peso ao nascer dos conceptos e ocorrência de partos prematuros de mulheres acompanhadas pela Estratégia de Saúde da Família de Itaqui-RS

Abstract

To describe and to analyze maternal nutritional status during pregnancy, preterm delivery and birth weight of the fetuses of women accompanied by the Family Health Strategy of Itaqui-RS. It has been the continuation of a previous survey with 105 pregnant women assisted by the FHS in the years of 2013/2014. It presents a cross-sectional design, data from the previous research related to pregnancy, socio-demographic information and anthropometric measurements have been used. From September 2015 to February 2016, it was performed an active search to the same women to collect data and on the baby birth weight on the occurrence of prematurity. Data were expressed as mean and standard deviation, categorical variables were expressed as absolute and relative frequency. Eighty patients participated in the study, mean age 27 years. There was a higher prevalence of overweight, 37.5% of pregnant women were overweight and 35% were obese, most gave birth to babies on appropriate weight (89.3%). The average weight at birth of the fetuses was 3.27 ± 048 kg. The prevalence of preterm births was 16.2%. It has been noticed the prevalence of pregnant women who were overweight, which, on most of the cases, conceived babies with adequate birth weight. There was a higher number of premature births when compared to other studies.