Risk factors of low birth weight at three hospitals in Khartoum State, Sudan.

Omer A M Saeed; Haidar A Ahmed; Alaa M F Ibrahim; Enas A A Mahmood; Tasneem O A Abdu-Allah

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Sudan J Paed. 2014; 14(2): 22-8

Risk factors of low birth weight at three hospitals in Khartoum State, Sudan.

Omer A M Saeed; Haidar A Ahmed; Alaa M F Ibrahim; Enas A A Mahmood; Tasneem O A Abdu-Allah.

Abstract
The aim of this study was to determine the percentage of women who give birth to low birth weight (LBW) children and to study the association of the different risk factors with LBW in three of large hospitals in Khartoum State, Sudan. This was a cross sectional study of 381 women. Three groups: 151, 130 and 100 women, who gave birth to live children, were selected from Alsuadi Teaching Hospital, Khartoum Teaching Hospital and Alribat University Hospital, respectively. Data were collected through structured interviews and the birth weights were recorded as measured by midwives. Uni-Multi variate analysis of the data was performed using SPSS 19. Permissions were taken from hospital administration and the participants before the conduction of the research. 13% of live born children were of low birth weight. The main risk factors for low birth weight in the study were the lack of adequate education (OR= 1.9) gestational age (OR= 5.5), type of pregnancy (OR= 9.6), presence of hypertension (OR= 3.6), renal disease (OR= 2.1), bleeding during pregnancy (OR= 6.1) and presence of moderate or severe anemia (OR= 3.19). While Adequacy of antenatal care (ANC) visits, presence of diabetes mellitus during pregnancy, smoking and malaria in the first three trimesters, presence of previous children and spacing were all found to be statistically not significant risk factors. Many of the risk factors are modifiable and can be prevented by improvement of the health care during pregnancy.

Key words: Low birth weight; gestational age; maternal education; risk factors

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Saeed OAM, Ahmed HA, Ibrahim AMF, Mahmood EAA, Abdu-Allah TOA. Risk factors of low birth weight at three hospitals in Khartoum State, Sudan.. Sudan J Paed. 2014; 14(2): 22-8.

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Saeed OAM, Ahmed HA, Ibrahim AMF, Mahmood EAA, Abdu-Allah TOA. Risk factors of low birth weight at three hospitals in Khartoum State, Sudan.. Sudan J Paed. 2014; 14(2): 22-8.

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Saeed OAM, Ahmed HA, Ibrahim AMF, Mahmood EAA, Abdu-Allah TOA. Risk factors of low birth weight at three hospitals in Khartoum State, Sudan.. Sudan J Paed. (2014), [cited June 23, 2024]; 14(2): 22-8.

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Saeed, O. A. M., Ahmed, . H. A., Ibrahim, . A. M. F., Mahmood, . E. A. A. & Abdu-Allah, . T. O. A. (2014) Risk factors of low birth weight at three hospitals in Khartoum State, Sudan.. Sudan J Paed, 14 (2), 22-8.

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Saeed, Omer A M, Haidar A Ahmed, Alaa M F Ibrahim, Enas A A Mahmood, and Tasneem O A Abdu-Allah. 2014. Risk factors of low birth weight at three hospitals in Khartoum State, Sudan.. Sudanese Journal of Paediatrics, 14 (2), 22-8.

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Saeed, Omer A M, Haidar A Ahmed, Alaa M F Ibrahim, Enas A A Mahmood, and Tasneem O A Abdu-Allah. "Risk factors of low birth weight at three hospitals in Khartoum State, Sudan.." Sudanese Journal of Paediatrics 14 (2014), 22-8.

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