Maternal anthropometry and trophic condition of the newborn

Authors

  • Danay Hernández Díaz Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Villa Clara
  • Nélida Liduvina Sarasa Muñoz Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Villa Clara
  • Oscar Cañizares Luna Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Villa Clara
  • Calixto Orozco Muñoz Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Villa Clara
  • Yanet Lima Pérez Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Villa Clara
  • Beatríz Machado Díaz Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Villa Clara

Keywords:

Composición corporal, estado nutricional de la embarazada. Índice de masa corporal, distribución regional del tejido adiposo.

Abstract

Background: the nutritional state of a pregnant when she begins being followed up, her body fat and weight gains during pregnancy can affect growing and fetal development in mother’s health.
Objective: to determine the possible relation of the pregnant‘s nutritional state at follow up, the body fat, and weight gains during pregnancy with trophic condition of the new-born.
Methods: a prospective longitudinal study was conducted in 582 pregnant women from “Chiqui Gómez Lubián” health center in Santa Clara municipality. Specific anthropometric methods were applied to determine the body mass index, the percentage of body fat and weight gains for trimesters during pregnancy, as well as to evaluate the trophic condition of the new-born. Distributions of frequencies and analyses of variable association were carried out.
Results: the association of nutritional state with body fat percentage and waist/ height index, as in waist height index with body fat percentage. Pregnant women with adequate weight and normal percentages of body weight and waist/height prevailed. The greatest weight gains during pregnancy corresponded to mothers of big children for the gestational age.
Conclusions: the nutritional state of the pregnant at the beginning of the pregnancy seems to mask the real proportions of body fat and particularly abdominal adiposity, according to the figures of body mass index. However, waist/height index can reveal in time the behavior of composition and distribution of fat in the woman from the beginning of the pregnancy. The greatest weight gains occurred in those pregnancies with big new-borns for the gestational age, in dependence of the nutritional state when they were followed-up.
DeCS: ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY COMPOSITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; BODY MASS INDEX; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES.

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Author Biographies

Danay Hernández Díaz, Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Villa Clara

Especialista de Primer Grado en Bioestadística. Profesora Asistente. Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Villa Clara/Unidad de Investigaciones Básica Biomédicas. Santa Clara, Cuba.

Nélida Liduvina Sarasa Muñoz, Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Villa Clara

Especialista de Segundo Grado en Anatomía Humana. Profesora Titular y Consultante. Dr. en Ciencias Médicas. Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Villa Clara. Santa Clara, Cuba.

Oscar Cañizares Luna, Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Villa Clara

Profesor Titular de Anatomía Humana. Máster en Educación Médica y en Educación Avanzada. Doctor en Ciencias Médicas.

Calixto Orozco Muñoz, Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Villa Clara

Especialista de Segundo Grado en Medicina General Integral. Profesor Auxiliar. Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Villa Clara. Santa Clara, Cuba.

Yanet Lima Pérez, Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Villa Clara

Especialista de Primer Grado en Anatomía Humana. Instructora. Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Villa Clara. Santa Clara, Cuba.

Beatríz Machado Díaz, Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Villa Clara

Especialista de primer grado en Medicina General Integral. Residente de Anatomía Humana. Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Villa Clara. Santa Clara, Cuba.

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Published

2016-10-25

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Hernández Díaz D, Sarasa Muñoz NL, Cañizares Luna O, Orozco Muñoz C, Lima Pérez Y, Machado Díaz B. Maternal anthropometry and trophic condition of the newborn. Arch méd Camagüey [Internet]. 2016 Oct. 25 [cited 2025 Aug. 3];20(5):477-8. Available from: https://revistaamc.sld.cu/index.php/amc/article/view/4581

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Vol. 20 No. 5 (2016)

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