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QUINTANA SANTIAGO, Yaan Manuel; MUR VILLAR, Norma; CRUZ MEDINA, Luis  y  APOLINAIRE PENNINI, Juan José. Déficit de vitamina A y su relación con la sepsis urinaria durante el embarazo. Rev Cubana Enfermer [online]. 2001, vol.17, n.2, pp. 78-83. ISSN 1561-2961.

One of the most serious and important nutritional problems affecting mankind is Vitamin A deficiency. This paper is aimed at setting whether there is a relation between Vitamin A deficiency and urinary sepsis in pregnancy. An ambispective study using a design of cases and controls was carried out under the hypothesis that one of the etiological factors in the urinary sepsis of pregnant woman is Vitamin A deficiency. Forty pregnant women admitted to "Martires de Girón" Gynecobstetric Hospital in Cienfuegos were studied and 20 of them was diagnosed with urinary sepsis, and a control group. Age, personal pathological history, anemia and vitamin intake were analyzed. All the pregnant women were made a conjunctival impression test to diagnose vitamin A deficiency. Data were processed by a SPSS computer system and Chi square was used as an statistical inference test. A close association between urinary sepsis and vitamin A deficiency was found. The studied disease was predominant in younger pregnant women with high number of personal pathological antecedents and anemia. The fact that Vitamin A deficiency was found in spite of a high vitamin intake was contradictory.

Palabras clave : VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY [diagnosis]; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS [etiology]; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS [etiology]; PROTEIN MALNUTRITION; CONJUNCTIVA [citology].

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