Prevalencia y factores asociados a hemorragia uterina anormal en adultas, Hospital José Carrasco Arteaga, Cuenca junio-diciembre 2019

Abstract

Background: Anormal uterine bleeding is the principal cause of gynecologic medical attention in adult women, it is in constant study for searching an exact definition and stablish the use of new diagnostic methods and aplication of updated treatments.

Objetive: Determine de prevalence and associated factors of anormal uterine bleeding, in women of 40 to 60, at José Carrasco Arteaga Hospital, Cuenca, 2019.

Methodology: Analytical study of transversal cut. Includes 277 medical records of pacients that comply inclusion criteria. The data was analyzed by SPSS v.15 program, the qualitative variables were presented with frequency and percentage values, and the quantitative with central tendency and dispersion measures (médium, SD); the statistic association is determined with Chi square values, and the associated factors with ODDS ratio results, with IC 95%, the hypothesis are accepted with value of p<0,05

Results: There were 277 medical record of women between 40 to 60 years old, medium age 49+-6 years, married (60,3%), secondary instruction (42,9%), urban residence (73,6%), overweight (50,9%) and multiparous (57,8%), 40,1% of them came for anormal uterine bleeding associated with significative relevance p<0.005 to uterine myomatosis (p=0,000), adenomyosis (p=0,02), polyp (p=0,000) and endometrial hyperplasia (p=0,000), being myomatosis the principal cause in 27% of cases.

Conclusions: Confirms de high prevalence of AUB, organic cause is the most common especially uterine miomatosis