ArticleThe Pan African medical journal2021
[Case-control study of factors associated with low birth weight at the Kingasani Hospital Center, Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo)].
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- Prognostic factors for neonatal mortality at the Agadir regional hospital centre, Morocco: A cohort study.Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences · 2025Article
- Determinants of low birth weight in Franceville, Southeast Gabon.The Pan African medical journal · 2024Article
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introductionlow birth weight is considered one of the most important indicators for the survivability of a newborn and for a higher risk of morbidity, perinatal mortality and infant mortality. The purpose of this study was to analyse factors associated with low birth weight at the Kingasani Hospital in Kinshasa.
methodswe conducted a retrospective case-control study. The data about the information of the parturients and their children born from 1
resultsin 2016, 3451 live births were registered and the rate of underweight was estimated to 13.27%. Bivariate analysis showed that parity, the term of pregnancy, pregnancy type and infant's sex were variables significantly associated with low birth weight. After adjusting for variables integrated in multivariate analysis, parity, the term of pregnancy and pregnancy type were still significantly associated with low birth weight.
conclusiongiven these results, new studies of all the parameters involved in the occurrence of low birth weight are necessary in order to monitor the regular evolution of this issue and its associated factors.
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