Perfil nutricional e complicações gestacionais e perinatais em puérperas e neonatos internados em um Hospital Universitário de Cuiabá-MT

Abstract

Maternal nutritional status is related to the development of maternal and neonatal complications. PURPOSE: To evaluate the nutritional profile and gestational and perinatal complications in puerperae and neonates hospitalized in a University Hospital of Cuiabá-MT. METHODS: A cross-sectional study with 42 adult puerperae (≥20 years old) and their respective newborns, admitted to a university hospital in Cuiabá-MT. The data were collected through the interview and the speech, being: socioeconomic characteristics, lifestyle, obstetric history and current management (complications in pregnancy/delivery and the newborn). A nutritional evaluation by means of the Body Mass Index in the pre gestational and final gestational period was also evaluated by the total weight gain. The data were analyzed in the Statistical Package for Social Sciences and was given in mean and standard deviation, absolute and relative frequencies. RESULTS: 57.1% of the women (n=24) developed some gestational complications, such as common diabetes (n=12) and gestational hypertension (n=10). There was no significant association between weight gain and gestational diabetes (p=0,182), as well as with gestational hypertension (p=0,212). In neonates, complications occurred in 57% of them (n=24), being more frequent: jaundice (32.4%) and prematurity (27.0%). Perinatal complications affected the minority of women (19%). CONCLUSION: Although not found significant association between nutritional status and weight gain with complications, maternal nutritional status influences the development of pregnancy, so it is essential that it be performed the assessment of nutritional status before pregnancy and monitoring weight gain so that there is a better prognosis for mother and neonate.