RT Journal Article
T1 Predictive Factors for Severe Maternal Morbidity in Brazil: A Case-Control Study
A1 Mendes dos Santos Magalhães, Daniela
A1 Marcos Bernardes, João
A1 Ruiz Frutos, Carlos
A1 Gómez Salgado, Juan
A1 Paranhos Calderon, Iracema de Mattos
A1 Dias, Adriano
AB The maternal mortality or "maternal near miss" ratio in Brazil reflects the socioeconomicindicators as well as the healthcare quality in some areas of this country, pointing out fragile pointsin the health services. The aim of this study was to estimate the association of diverse variablesrelated to pregnancy and the occurrence of Near Miss in a population of women who were caredin public maternity wards in Brazil. A case-control study was performed. The association betweenvariables and outcomes was verified through a chi-square test. A multiple analysis was carried out,producing odds ratio (OR) estimates with values of p 0.25 in the univariate model. The resultspoint to the following risk factors for Severe Maternal Morbidity: non-white (<0.001, OR 2.973),family income of up to two minimum wage salaries (<0.001; OR 2.159), not having a partner (<0.001,OR 2.694), obesity (<0.001, OR 20.852), not having received pre-natal care (<0.001, OR 2.843), going toless than six prenatal appointments (<0.001, OR 3.498), undergoing an inter-hospital transfer (<0.001,OR 24.655), and the absence of labor during admission (<0.001, OR 25.205). Although the resultsvary, the incidence of women with potential life-threatening complications is high in Brazil, whichreinforces the need to universalize more complex interventions as well as coverage of primary care.The presence of precarious socio-economic indicators and unqualified obstetric care were risk factorsfor Severe Maternal Morbidity.
PB MDPI
SN 2227-9032
YR 2021
FD 2021-03
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/19724
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/19724
LA eng
NO Magalhães, D. M. dos S., Bernardes, J. M., Ruiz Frutos, C., Gómez Salgado, J., Calderon, I. de M. P., & Dias, A. (2021). Predictive Factors for Severe Maternal Morbidity in Brazil: A Case-Control Study. Healthcare, 9(3), 335. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9030335
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 15 jun 2026