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CES Medicina
Print version ISSN 0120-8705
Abstract
LOPERA RODRIGUEZ, Jorge Alejandro and ROCHA OLIVERA, Emérita. Preeclampsia: its association with periodontal and urinary infections according to trimester of pregnancy. CES Med. [online]. 2016, vol.30, n.1, pp.14-25. ISSN 0120-8705.
Introduction: preeclampsia is a problem that affects maternal health and can cause death in pregnant women. Therefore, preeclampsia is considered a public health problem. Despite, the etiology of preeclampsia is unknown yet. A factor associated with preeclampsia is infections in pregnancy, but the role of this factor has not been characterized by pregnancy trimester. The main goal of this work is to determine if there is an association between infections in each trimester of pregnancy and preeclampsia. Methods: this study was performed using cases and controls methodology. 85 cases and 85 controls were obtained from clinical registers. These were appeared by gynecobstetric history, age and body mass index. A univariate analysis was performed to characterize the patients in the study. A bivariated analysis was done to know the individual association between infections and preeclampsia. Finally, a multivariated analysis was applied. Results: it was not founded association with rinofaringitis, tract urinary infection diagnosed through clinical and urine culture and positive urine culture. A similar behavior was observed in the analysis by trimester. In the multivariated analysis adjusted by tract urinary infection variables and dental findings, the presence of caries in the first trimester showed a risk association with OR 2,04. Conclusions: caries in the first trimester takes relevance when it occurs at the same time that tract urinary infection and other findings associated to dental infections.
Keywords : Preeclampsia; Periodontal infections; Urinary tract infections.