Abstract

PERAZA ROQUE, Georgina J; PEREZ DELGADO, Silvia de la C  and  FIGUEROA BARRETO, Zoe de los A. Factores asociados al bajo peso al nacer. Rev Cubana Med Gen Integr [online]. 2001, vol.17, n.5, pp.490-496. ISSN 0864-2125.

Low birth weight has been an enigma for Science through times. A lot of research works have been carried out about its causes and consequences. The importance of LBW not only lies in its meaning for infant mortality and morbidity but also in the many problems that low birth weight children regularly face in the future. The program for the reduction of LBW points out that newborns weighing under 2500g have during his/her first year of life a mortality risk 14 times higher than newborns with a normal weight at term. Among the low birth weight risk factors, a number of studies by various authors have frequently found the following; pregnancy at adolescence; undernourishment in mothers, smoking, blood hypertension during pregnancy, cervix-vaginal sepsis; anemia, twin pregnancies and others. The influence of LBW on the future generations can not be denied, therefore, LBW should be a target for the efforts of physicians and nurses to prevent it within the community

Keywords : INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; HEALTH STAUS INDICATORS; INDICATORS OF MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS.

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