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Rev Mex Pediatr 2011; 78 (4)

Macrosomia prevalence and associated factors

Ponce-Saavedra AS, González-Guerrero O, Rodríguez-García R, Echeverría-Landa A, Puig-Nolasco Á, Rodríguez-GuzmánLM

Language: Spanish
References: 16
Page: 139-142
PDF size: 54.20 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Objective. To known the prevalence of macrosomia and associated factors of children born in the hospital during 2007.
Results. During the studied period 910 children were borned, the average age of the mothers was 25.6 ± 5.4 years; of these, 75 (8.2%) were adolescents. The prevalence of macrosomia was 4.8%. The associated factors with macrosomia were: age of the mother and the history of three or more pregnancies (p ‹ 0.05). There were no specific obstetric factors associated with gender of the children with macrosomia.
Conclusions. It is confirm that the macrosomia is associated with maternal age.


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