Gestação de alto risco: perfil clínico e nutricional de mulheres encaminhadas ao ambulatório de nutrição do IMIP – Recife/PE

Abstract

Objective: To identify the clinical and nutritional profile of women with high-risk pregnancies treated at the nutrition outpatient clinic of the Intituto de Medicina Integral Professor Fernando Figueira – IMIP. Methodology: A cross-sectional study, carried out with a database of the IMIP’s nutrition clinic, done for convenience, with analysis of records in the outpatient form from January 2016 to July 2018. Results: It was verified that the main pathologies that affect the pregnant women are: Obesity, 46% (n=70; Gestational Diabetes Mellitus, 33,8% (n=51); and Gestational Hypertensive Syndrome, 14,6% (n=22). Regarding schooling, 53% (n=80) of the women had completed high school. 71,5% (n=108) had a family income equal to greater than a minimum wage. In 60,9% (n=92) of the cases women had a multiparity history, 29,1% (n=44) suffered abortion. Food intake was 96% (n=145), (90,7% (n=137) and 86,1% (n=130), respectively, of fruits, vegetables and industrialized foods. 59,6% (n=90) had an excessive weight gain and 46,4% (n=90) were obese according to pre-gestational BMI. Conclusions: This study made it possible to identify and characterize the clinical, nutritional and social profile of high-risk pregnant women; reinforcing the importance of identifying and intervening risks that affect the mother-child binomial, as well as adequate prenatal care.