Relation between weight of newborns and some biological and socioeconomic variables of the mother in childbirths taken care in a first level of complexity in the city of Manizales, Colombia, 1999 to 2005

Authors

  • José Jaime Castaño-Castrillón
  • José Fernando Giraldo-Cardona
  • Carlos Andrés Murillo-Díaz
  • Yuliana Jordán-Ordóñez
  • Jaime Andrés Orozco-Arango
  • Paulina Robledo-Vásquez
  • María del Pilar Velásquez-Duque
  • Juliana Villegas-González
  • Óscar Alberto Villegas-Arenas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18597/rcog.426

Keywords:

birth weight, risk factor, parturition

Abstract

Objective: describing the existing relationship between birth weight and some of the mother’s socioeconomic and biological variables.

Materials and methods: 

A Cross-sectional study wasperformed.1,892medicalrecordswerereviewed concerning deliveries at ASSBASALUD ESE’s La Enea clinic from 1999 to 2005. The variable sstudied were the newborn’s birth-weight and gender and the mother’s age, education, socioeconomic status, origin, type of conjugal relationship and fillingin the Latin-American Perinatology Centre’s form (CLAP-Centro Latinoamericano de Perinatología).

Results: low birth-weight prevalence was 4.4%. Being in an unstable marriage (p=0.03) and the new-born being female (p=0.00) were the variables having most statistical significance.

Conclusion: low birth-weight prevalence was less than that described in other Latin-America populations. No association was found with other previously-described factors.

Author Biographies

José Jaime Castaño-Castrillón

Profesor Asociado, Director Centro de Investigaciones, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Manizales.Manizales, Colombia. 

José Fernando Giraldo-Cardona

Docente Semiología, F. de Medicina, U. de Manizales, Gerente Clínica, ASSBASALUD, ESE, La Enea,Manizales, Colombia.

Carlos Andrés Murillo-Díaz

Estudiante X semestre, F. de Medicina, U. de Manizales. Manizales, Colombia.

Yuliana Jordán-Ordóñez

Estudiante X semestre, F. de Medicina, U. de Manizales. Manizales, Colombia.

Jaime Andrés Orozco-Arango

Estudiante X semestre, F. de Medicina, U. de Manizales. Manizales, Colombia.

Paulina Robledo-Vásquez

Estudiante X semestre, F. de Medicina, U. de Manizales. Manizales, Colombia.

María del Pilar Velásquez-Duque

Estudiante X semestre, F. de Medicina, U. de Manizales. Manizales, Colombia.

Juliana Villegas-González

Estudiante X semestre, F. de Medicina, U. de Manizales. Manizales, Colombia.

Óscar Alberto Villegas-Arenas

Docente Semiología, F. de Medicina, U. de Manizales. Médico ASSBASALUD ESE. Manizales, Colombia.

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Castaño-Castrillón JJ, Giraldo-Cardona JF, Murillo-Díaz CA, Jordán-Ordóñez Y, Orozco-Arango JA, Robledo-Vásquez P, et al. Relation between weight of newborns and some biological and socioeconomic variables of the mother in childbirths taken care in a first level of complexity in the city of Manizales, Colombia, 1999 to 2005. Rev. colomb. obstet. ginecol. [Internet]. 2008 Mar. 31 [cited 2024 May 18];59(1):20-5. Available from: https://revista.fecolsog.org/index.php/rcog/article/view/426

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