Abreu VC, Santana OT, Mánchola PE, Viamontes CAA

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ABSTRACT

Background: the gestational diabetes is defined as the intolerance to the hydrates of carbon of variable intensity, beginning during gestation, despite that the diabetes continues after the childbirth. Objective: to characterize the gestational diabetes during a five-year period. Method: a transversal descriptive study was conducted with the universe of pregnant women diagnosed with gestational diabetes belonging to the health area Ignacio Agramonte from 2011 to 2015, including all who wanted to participate, and excluded those diagnosed before that stage and the diabetes mellitus of another classification. A database in Excel was created and then it was exported to the SPSS 12 (SPSS, Chicago, IL). Descriptive statistic was applied. Results: at the beginning of the gestation nearly half of them were normo weight, the gaining of weight was the most exaggerated one in the normo weight, the recently born macro fetuses was presented mostly in obese. As associate clinical pathology vaginal sepsis stood out and in obstetric backgrounds the spontaneous abortions: the family background of diabetes mellitus in the mother and a single congenital malformation. Most of the mothers when being born were not macro fetuses. Conclusions: the macro fetuses were presented mostly in obese, there were antecedents of spontaneous abortion and the presence of congenital malformations did not stand out.