[Energy intake, maternal nutritional status and intrauterine growth retardation].
To explore the association between low caloric intake during pregnancy and intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR), a case-control study with 264 cases and 892 controls was conducted in three maternity hospitals in Mexico City from January to August 1995. Nutritional information on pregnancy was recorded using a previously validated food frequency questionnaire. After adjusting for other known maternal risk factors in the non-conditional logistic regression analysis, for the total sample, caloric intake did not present a direct effect on IUGR (OR: 0.99; CI 95%: 0.99-1.00). However the odds ratios were as follows for women: with low pre-gestational weight (OR: 2.31; CI 95%: 1.59-3.36), in first gestation (OR: 1.72; CI 95%: 1.18-2.51), with low birth weight infants (OR: 3.54; CI 95%: 1.93-6.46), and presenting hypertension during pregnancy (OR: 1.61; CI 95%: 1.00-2.59).
Martins
Eliana Bender
EB
Faculdade de Nutrição, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, RS, 96010-900, Brasil. ebender@ufpel.tche.br
Núñez Urquiza
Rosa María
RM
D001724:Birth Weight; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D015331:Cohort Studies; D002149:Energy Intake; D005260:Female; D005317:Fetal Growth Retardation / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D016015:Logistic Models; D039382:Maternal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D008800:Mexico / Q000453:epidemiology; D009752:Nutritional Status; D011247:Pregnancy; D012307:Risk Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
Consumo calórico, estado nutricional materno, y retraso del crecimiento intrauterino,