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PRENDES LABRADA, Marianela de la C; JIMENEZ ALEMAN, Guénola M; GONZALEZ PEREZ, Rinaldo  y  GUIBERT REYES, Wilfredo. Estado nutricional materno y peso al nacer. Rev Cubana Med Gen Integr [online]. 2001, vol.17, n.1, pp. 35-42. ISSN 1561-3038.

An analytic cohort study was conducted in "Raúl Gómez" Polyclinic between January, 1996, and September, 1997, aimed at relating the maternal nutritional status with birth weight. Age, smoking habit, weight, height, initial ponderal assessment, transgestational weight gain and birth weight were determined among the 305 pregnant women that concluded the study. The adequate weight, the transgestational weight gain of 8 kg or more and the height ³ 150 cm were associated with a birth weight³ 3000 g. Women with the lowest height of 150 cm, low weight III and IV and the smokers had more frequently newborn infants between 2 500 and 2 999 g. The low birth weight risk was higher among the expectants with low weight I-II-II-IV, with a transgestational weight gain under 8 kg and among smokers

Palabras clave : PREGNANCY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; BIRTH WEIGHT; COHORT STUDIES; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE.

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