Abstract

HERNANDEZ CABRERA, Jesús et al. Impact of the gravidic hypertensive disease on perinatal and maernal morbidity-mortality indicators 1986-1993. Rev Cubana Obstet Ginecol [online]. 1996, vol.22, n.1, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-3062.

The authors performed a prospective, descriptive study at the Matanzas Gyneco-Obstetric Educational Hospital, from 1986 to 1993, to each patient classified as hypertensive, according with the classification criteria of the American Association of Obstetrics and Gynecology (sample made up with 1 092 patients with 1 127 deliveries [33 twin births and one birth of triplets] from a total of 28 555 deliveries). Data were taken from the case histories of the said patients, from the acts of the Infantile Mortality Comittee of the Center, and from the protocols of the necropsies, as well as from statistical data from the Center which allowed emptying them in a FOXBASE data base, allowing the differential statistical proceeding by the Statgraph system, by the percentage estimation method; arithmetic means; Chi-square test for independence of significance levels with predetermined percentile. The Usher's Table was used in classifying the fetal weight. The different variables studied demonstrated the negative incidence that the entity has over the general and the particular indicators of perinatal and maternal morbidity and mortality, being the most representative in serious pre-eclampsia and the III chronic in most of the studied features. As to maternal mortality, there was a 0,6 % of lethality, and a morbidity of 2,5 x 10 000.

Keywords : HYPERTENSION [epidemiology]; PERINATAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR [epidemiology]; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; MORBIDITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY DESCRIPTIVE.