Factores de riesgo asociados a malformaciones congénitas de los recién nacidos del Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso en la ciudad de Cuenca en el período 2004-2005

Abstract

This research is an analytical study of cases and controls. 76 patients were reviewed in two samples: 38 cases and 38 controls. The data obtained were analyzed by frequency, Odds Ratio and Chi2. Assessing the risks they were exposed mothers live and dead children with birth defects in the area of ​​Gynecology and Obstetrics Hospital "Vicente Corral Moscoso". The results were: congenital malformations in newborns presented more alive (94.70). The 60.53tuvo pattern and single and multiple 30.51para. The only major malformations with 26.32para and 73.68 for children; in the 30.51para multiple major and minor 69.49para. No statistical significance between group risk pregnancy and congenital malformation was found, but was determined to risk pregnancy I (low insertion level, primary level education, urban residence of mother, primipara, multipara) is risky: primary level instruction with a risk ratio of 1.95 and 5.85 Chi2, aged mother with a risk ratio of 1.76 and Chi2 and low level of social integration in which the risk ratio is 2.11 and obtained by the Chi2 4.22. There are factors that are known causal association with malformations, but in this study it is not demonstrated by the sample size and study time. The relative incidence of specific risk factor for certain types of defect escapes the objectives of this study