Background:

infertility is the inability to have children, but with the possibility of pregnancy, which does not reach term. There are one hundred and eighty-seven million affected couples in the world.

Objective:

to characterize women treated in the municipal consultation of infertility.

Methods:

an observational and retrospective descriptive study was carried out in Emilio Daudinot Bueno Docent Polyclinic, Guantánamo, during the period January 2017 to June 2020. The universe was made up of 128 infertile women who met the inclusion criteria: 19-39 years old, seen in infertility consultation and fulfill the concept of infertility. Qualitative and quantitative variables were evaluated. The primary data was obtained from the medical records of the patients seen.

Results:

females aged 25-29 years with secondary infertility predominated; genital infections as the predominant cause factor, followed by unfavorable obstetric history and, in most patients, healthy weight as a nutritional assessment. It was possible to perceive that of the total number of patients, in some there was some degree of increase in body weight.

Conclusions:

the infertility consultation fulfills the objective of achieving the conception of women by attenuating the causes that prevent it, the performance of each health professional by incorporating the necessary knowledge to be used in its adequate follow-up, will allow specifying it from Primary Care of health.

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