Estudo com gestantes atendidas em um centro municipal de saúde da periferia de Botucatu - São Paulo: relação entre baixo peso materno e baixo peso ao nascer do concepto

• Autor(a) principal: Lima, Cristina Maria Garcia De [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 1995
• Outros Autores: Pelá, Nilza Teresa Rotter
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0104-11691995000100007; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/212317
• topic: nutrition; pregnant women; low weight; nutrição; gestantes; baixo peso

This study evaluated a group of 15 low-weight pregnant women, who underwent prenatal medical examinations at a City Health Center on the outskirts of Botucatu - SP, using the Rosso Curve, and compared them with a group of 8 normal-weight pregnant women, also screened by the same institution at the same prenatal service. We verified that the children born from normal-weight pregnant women weighed an average 118g more than those of low-weight pregnant women. Independent of the mother's weight, those born from mothers whose height was greater than 155cm and were non-smokers weighed more. Pregnant women of normal weight had, on average, an additional 2 weeks of pregnancy: Amongst those born of low-weight pregnant women, we noted a connection between medium birth weight and an increase on the uterine height curve x gestational age. There was no connection between maternal anemia and interpartal intervals less than to 2 years and birth weight.