Abstract

HERNANDEZ CABRERA, Jesús  and  SUAREZ OJEDA, Roberto. Gravidic hypertensive disease: considerations about its influence on the indexes of maternal and perinatal morbimortality during 1997. Rev Cubana Obstet Ginecol [online]. 1998, vol.24, n.3, pp. 122-127. ISSN 1561-3062.

This paper presents the findings of a study made on hospitalized patients which were classified as hypertensive persons during 1997, in the Faculty Gynecobstetric Hospital of Matanzas, reaching the total of 267 patients. Out of them; 3 313 were not hypertensive persons, showing an incidence of 8,1 % of gravidic hypertension. A data base was created, which was further processed in the Microstat system, making possible to apply the ratio method, the parametric method of X², where a £ 0,05 for prefixed percentage and the arithmetical averages. The analyzed variables made possible to show by its statistical significance, the negative effect of the gravidic hypertension in our morbi-mortality indexes.

Keywords : PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS CARDIOVASCULAR [epidemiology]; HIPERTENSION [epidemiology]; INFANT MORTALITY.

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