Risk factors associated with low birth weight

Currently, the low birth weight rate is considered as a general health indicator, since the conditions of any individual at birth have an impact on their physical and intellectual development, which is why it should be a priority to seek optimal conditions for the newborn; this can only be achieved by ensuring adequate health conditions for women, from the preconception period. This book aims to characterize some of the risk factors of low birth weight, through an observational, descriptive and transversal study in the San Juan Y Martínez municipality of Pinar del Rio Province. Cuba. The universe was taken as the total number of pregnant women who contributed 242 births during the period and the sample was represented by the 23 pregnant women who contributed the same number of low birth weight newborns. An exhaustive documentary review of the clinical histories of the pregnant women was carried out, taking the data in correspondence with the variables to be studied that would give an output to the objectives of the research. Recommendations are made that may contribute to reduce the incidence of low birth weight.