Publicación: ASSOCIATION BETWEEN MATERNAL FACTORS, PRETERM BIRTH, AND LOW BIRTH WEIGHT OF CHILEAN SINGLETONS
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2022
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CHILDREN-BASEL
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THERE HAS BEEN AN INCREASE IN PRETERM (PT) BIRTHS IN WESTERN COUNTRIES IN RECENT YEARS, WHICH IS ASSOCIATED WITH LOW-BIRTHWEIGHT (LBW) CHILDREN. THE AIM OF THIS STUDY WAS TO DETERMINE THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN MATERNAL FACTORS AND PT AND LBW CHILEAN NEWBORNS. METHODS: THIS WAS AN ANALYTICAL CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY OF A NATIONAL SAMPLE OF 903,847 NEWBORNS AND THEIR MOTHERS. THE NEWBORN GESTATIONAL AGE, BIRTH WEIGHT, MATERNAL AGE, MARITAL STATUS, EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT SITUATION, AND RESIDENCE WERE ANALYZED. A MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODEL WAS APPLIED (? = 0.05) (STATA V.15). THE PREVALENCE WAS 6.8% AND 5.0% FOR PT AND LBW, RESPECTIVELY. THE PROBABILITY OF THE NEWBORNS BEING PT AND LBW WAS 1.18 AND 1.22 TIMES IF THEIR MOTHERS HAD
