Asociación de antecedentes familiares, escolaridad y edad de la madre con la prevalencia de labio fisurado y paladar hendido

The purpose of this research was to establish the prevalence of risk factors in mothers, for the occurrence of cleft lip and palate, in newborns treated at the Hospital Obstetric Gynecology “Isidro Ayora”, in Quito, considering that this is a first class hospital, and pregnant women come from various sites of Ecuador. The methodology used for data collection was direct observation, which collected data from medical records of patients presenting pathology children during 2012 to 2014, 36 patients were treated with this disease carriers babies; the variables taken into account were: the mother's age, educational level, intake of drugs, physical and biological factors, inheritance. According to the investigation none of the mothers concludes his higher education and in other educational levels have that 8.3 percent were illiterate, 16.6 percent went to primary and secondary corresponding to 75 percent Study subjects where equally prenatal care was not continuous or many did not agree to it, giving as value to 50 percent of mothers without prenatal care during pregnancy, 30.5 percent with little control, 16.6 percent with an acceptable control and only 2.7 percent with optimal control. Prenatal care are important because the mothers body changes, increasing requirements for new life such as are prenatal vitamins, folic acid, iron; should not cover these amounts, or not be administered in stages of formation can be complications resulting in cleft lip and palate and other malformations. Age is another significant factor that influences the genetic code that is transferred to the fetus, the greater the age, the genetic code is defective and can cause birth defects, the study women from 25-40 years represent 41.6 percent, and under this age 58.6 percent; We can also denote the height of the cities is another major risk factor for the onset of the disease is more common in patients of the Ecuadorian highlands, and to a lesser percentage coast and east, sites where our patients have their origin. Given the ...