Behavior of low birth weight in Imia’s town, Guantanamo province

Abstract

A study is done at the Policlinic "Ciro Frías Cabrera" Imías Township, Guantanamo province, from January 2010 to December 2012 with the aim of characterizing the behavior of low birth weight. The studied group consists of 957 low births, which is selected a sample of 59 Children. The information and data are entered manually processed and summarized in quantitative and qualitative variables, very important to the proposed objectives. The rate of low birth weight has a tendency to increase in the years of study, preterm births were predominated, with more than 2 000 g, average weight whose mothers mostly had at the time of birth: the following main results were obtained delivery, with age between 20 and 35 years, prevailing low birth weight children, whose women had vaginal sepsis during pregnancy.