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Medicentro Electrónica
On-line version ISSN 1029-3043
Abstract
TURINO SARDUY, Sayrafat et al. Anthropometry in overweight pregnant women at the beginning of pregnancy. Medicentro Electrónica [online]. 2020, vol.24, n.2, pp. 250-266. Epub Apr 01, 2020. ISSN 1029-3043.
Introduction:
excess body fat in women of childbearing age has doubled in the last 30 years, so this nutritional status has become a threat to the stability of pregnant women. Overweight and obesity are known to be associated with multiple complications.
Objective:
to describe the anthropometric indicators in healthy overweight pregnant women according to affinity of adiposity variables and degrees of overweight.
Methods:
an analytical cross-sectional study was carried out from October 2016 to October 2017 in all overweight pregnant women of three health areas belonging to Santa Clara municipality. The multivariate classification method: two-step cluster analysis was used, as well as descriptive measures of central tendency and dispersion of the studied variables.
Results:
two clusters were obtained and in one of them pregnant women with greater adiposity were gathered; average values of body composition variables were higher in cluster 2 and in overweight grade II.
Conclusions:
the grouping of overweight pregnant women, according to affinity of body fat variables, allowed obtaining groupings of relative correspondence with the established degrees of overweight.
Keywords : adiposity; anthropometry; overweight; pregnancy.