Nutritional status, morbidity and weight increase level of pregnant women in VinhBao district, HaiPhong city the year 2001

ABSTRACT

In Vinh Bao district, Hai Phong city in the year 2001, 825 female subjects aged 18-35 years old with first pregnancy or one child, without abortion or immature delivery, were divided into 2 groups according to BMI (For CED group BMI < 18.5 and normal group BMI  18.5). The prevalence of chronical energy deficit (CED) before pregnancy was 29%, among them, 1st grade CED 21.2%, 2nd grade 6.3%, 3rd grade 1.5%. The prevalence of common diseases (cough, fever, headache, diarrhoea…) in CED - 40.2%, higher than normal group - 26.3%. In general, for both two groups, morbidity reduced progressively in the course of pregnancy the prevalence was 18.6% in the first trimestre, 8.8% in the second trimestre and 8.4% in the terminal 3rd trimestre. Considering body weight, in the first trimestre the weight gained by 0.48kg (CED group 1.19lg, normal group 0.19kg), in 2nd trimestre, the weight gained 2.46kg (CED group 2.91kg, normal group 2.28kg), in the last 3rd trimestre 4.08kg (CED group 4.28kg, normal group 4.0kg).