Identificar la relación entre el IMC elevado y la preeclampsia severa estableciendo el riesgo en las mujeres embarazadas del Hospital Teodoro Maldonado Carbo en el periodo desde enero 2018 a diciembre 2018.

Abstract

Preeclampsia is a disease of pregnancy that appears after 20 week of gestation and is characterized by the appearance of elevated blood pressure and proteinuria, whose main involvement is localized in the target organs. The etiology of this disease is unknown, but it is believed that it is produced by a series of events that begins with the endothelial dysfunction of the entire maternal system and the placental bed. According to world statistics the incidence goes from 12 to 17% of pregnancies, the WHO indicates that hypertensive diseases are one of the main causes of maternal and perinatal death. In Latin America, specifically in countries with a significant poverty rate, they have a greater incidence of higher maternal mortality. In Ecuador preeclampsia and eclampsia are among the first places in the ranking of maternal death from 2006 to 2014 representing 27.53% of all maternal deaths, these data in our country were found in the INEC.