ASSESSMENT OF RISK FACTORS FOR PRETERM BIRTH: CASE CONTROL STUDY

Mohammed Hasoon, Suhair

	ASSESSMENT OF RISK FACTORS FOR PRETERM BIRTH: CASE CONTROL STUDY
AL-TAQANI
Article 1, Volume 26, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 0-0
Author
Suhair Mohammed Hasoon
Abstract
World Health Organization defines preterm birth as a gestational age at birth of less than 37 completed gestational weeks. Preterm birth is recognized as a major public health problem by both clinicians and researchers because it is the leading cause of infant mortality. The aim of the present study is to determine factors, which cause or associate with the development of preterm birth and permit identifying pregnant women who are at high risk in the development of preterm birth. A case-control study design to compare 209 preterm birth women with 418 controls selected according to the method of unpaired sampling from Al-Elwaya pediatric hospital and central child teaching hospital in Baghdad during (1st June to 30th Septembers 2011). High-risk association was observed between preterm birth and pregnancy at older age groups 40-49 years, while lowest – risk at young age 20-29 years. The illiteracy rate was higher among this study (25.8% and about13.9% compared to control. Several significant risk associations between preterm birth and the following risk factors were identified: hypertension (OR=8.7), diabetes mellitus (OR=7.03), urinary tract infection (OR = 11.60) and <1 visit of primary health care (OR = 2.5). Conclusion show that the factors that might be related to preterm birth was (occupation, parity, birth space interval and twin delivery). Key words: Preterm birth, birth space interval, control, abortion, BMI
Keywords
Words; birth space interval; control; abortion; BMI

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