[Low birth-weight neonates in Tunisia (author's transl)].
From a prospective analysis performed in a maternity-hospital in Tunis, incidence, characteristic features and etiologic factors responsible for birth-weight below 2,5000 g have been studied. Incidence of low birth-weight is accepted as an indicator of the level of health care in a country; this incidence, established from 6,028 living births was 7.2%, similar to that in developed countries. On the contrary, intra-uterine growth retardation rates of 69.6% and prematures rates of 30.4% are closer to those in developing countries. Altogether, anomalies of height and of the height/head circumference ratio were present in 36 children only and, in 12 out the these, abnormalities of the placenta or membranes or evidence of fetal disease were found. A factor responsible for low birth weight was found in 182 neonates: previous severe disease in the mother (7.7%), toxemia (9.4%) twin pregnancy (22.41%), fetal pathology (3.5%) and pathology of the placenta and membranes (4.6%).
D001827:Body Height; D001835:Body Weight; D005260:Female; D005317:Fetal Growth Retardation / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D005865:Gestational Age; D006801:Humans; D007230:Infant, Low Birth Weight; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D011272:Pregnancy, Multiple; D011446:Prospective Studies; D014416:Tunisia
Les nouveau-nés de faible poids de naissance en Tunisie. Incidence, caractéristiques et facteurs étiologiques.