Anthropometric assessment as an expression of the clinical method in obese pregnant

Abstract

Introduction: Obesity can be considered as a disease and a real health problem.
Objective: Describe the anthropometric characteristics in a group of pregnant women who start pregnancy with obesity.
Methods: A prospective observational analytical study was carried outon the anthropometric characteristics in 185 pregnant women with overweight and obesity in Santa Clara, Villa Clara in 2014.
Results: Out of the total number of patients studied, 64.67 % did not refer previous history and the age average was 30.5 years: minimum age was 17 years and a maximum was 46 years. 47 pregnant women are chronic hypertension (25.40 %); followed by 8 werediabetic and 6 were cardiac patients. Waist circumference higher than 88 cm was found in 91.89 %. This is an element for metabolic syndrome diagnosis. 53.51 % had waist/hip higher rate than 0.85 cm, which means cardiovascular risk. Mostly, the weight of newborns of obese mothers were at normal levels.
Conclusions: Women in reproductive age predominate in the group of obese pregnant, with exogenous obesity before pregnancy. While most have no associated medical history, a quarter of the sample has chronic hypertension, and fewer has diabetes mellitus and heart disease. Most have diagnostic elements of the metabolic syndrome with waist circumference higher than 88 cm, and half of the sample have elements of detected cardiovascular risk. The weight of most newborns was normal.