Abstract

PEREZ PROENZA, Argel et al. Preconception Care and Perinatal Outcomes in Diabetic Women. ccm [online]. 2016, vol.20, n.4, pp.615-629. ISSN 1560-4381.

Introduction: pregestacional care to diabetic women is considered a requirement to obtain good results during the gestational stage. The beginning of pregnancy without an adequate metabolic control, predispose to the loss of the pregnancy or to a risk of increasing congenital bad formations, although there are other alterations which have been described in the fetus and the newly born. Objective: to determine if the preconceptional care in pregestacional diabetic women have positive repercussions in pregnancy and its perinatal results. Method: a cohort study about the behavior of the perinatal variables in diabetic women was carried out, this study was related to the preconceptional care in the Diabetes and Pregnancy Service of the Universitary Hospital Vladimir I. Lenin of Holguín, in the period of time between 2004-2013. The universe was formed by 218 pregestacional diabetic women. The sample was integrated by 203 pregnant women who presented their childbirth with 28 weeks or more of gestation. The patients were divided in two groups, one involving 57 pregnant women (study group), who were assisted before the pregnancy and a pregnant second group of 146 (control group), to whom, this assistance was not provided. Results: the big newly born to the gestational age of (23,03%) and the prematurity (21,07%) were predominant in the pregnants who were not assisted before pregnancy and just in them the fetal death (2.94%), the neonatal death (0.98%), the bad formations (1.12%) as well as other neonatal complications were seen. Conclusions: the study demonstrated that the preconcepcional care in the woman with pregestational diabetes impacts positively in pregnancy and perinatal results.

Keywords : pregestational diabetics; preconcepcional care; perinatal outcomes; maternal and child program.

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