Abstract

VELAZQUEZ PAVON, Mayra Nestora et al. Influence of Maternal Factors in Low Birth Weight. CCM [online]. 2013, vol.17, n.3, pp. 331-343. ISSN 1560-4381.

The low birth weight has been an enigma in science through the ages. There are multiple researches about the causes and consequences of low birth weight. Its importance lies not only in what it means in morbidity and mortality, but these children usually have multiple problems later. The Program for the Reduction of Low Birth Weight indicates that children born weighing less than 2500 g are at risk of fourteen times higher mortality during the first year of life, compared with children born with normal weight term. Being underweight has different presentation forms, as well as multiple maternal risk factors such as: hypertensive disease of pregnancy, anemia, maternal malnutrition, poor weight gain and vaginosis.

Keywords : low birth weight; preterm; uterine growth restriction.

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