Prevalencia y Factores Asociados a Diabetes Gestacional en el Centro de Salud Carlos Elizalde, Cuenca, 2017

Abstract

INTRODUCCION: Gestational Diabetes is a metabolic disorder of multiple etiologies, characterized by elevated levels of glucose detected for the first time during the pregnancy.

OBJECTIVES: To determine the prevalence and factors associated with gestational diabetes in patients between 24 and 28 weeks of gestation, attended at the Carlos Elizalde Health Center, from the city of Cuenca, during 2017.

METHODS: Cross sectional study with 230 patients. The sample was calculates with 95 % confidence, 18 % DG prevalence, 5 % inference error and infinite population. The data were obtained directly and analyzed with the software SPSS version 15. The risk was analyzed with the prevalence ratio and confidence interval; and the statistical significance with Chi square test and p value, considered significant if it was less than 0,05.

RESULTS: 68 % were between 20 and 35 years; 48,3 % were single, 77,4 %resided in urban areas and 63,9 %had more than 13 years of education. The prevalence of DG was 13, 0 %, no significant association was found with the exposure factors: sedentary lifestyle (RP 1,20, IC 95 %: 0,56-2,57 and p value 0,361), family history of Diabetes (RP 1, 19, IC 95 % 0,52-2,72 and p value 0,686), background of DG (RP 1,95, IC 95 %: 0,35-11,00 and p value 0,474), overweight ( RP 0,94, IC 95 %: 0,47-1,87 and p value 0,859), and obesity (RP 1,26, IC 95 %: 0,55-2,88 and p value 0,582).

CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of Gestational Diabetes (GD) is in relation to the bibliography exposed. There was no statistical relationship with the exposure factors studied.