[Anthropometry at birth of the child of a mother with a change in glucose metabolism]. / Antropometría al nacimiento del hijo de madre con alteración en el metabolismo de la glucosa.

The study compares 156 newborns whose mothers had an endocrinological diagnosis of various glucose metabolism disorders, and a control group of 42 newborn whose mothers had no glucose metabolism disorder. The entire sample including the control group had 98 males and 100 females. The study group with 156 newborns was divided into 4 groups, depending on the degree of the mother's disorder. In group 1, the baby's mothers suffered diabetes mellitus type 1; group 2, diabetes type 2; group 3, gestational diabetes; and group 4, pregnancy disorders of glucose. We observed that there were no differences among the groups in the weight/height ratio. Nevertheless there was great variability in the correlation between height and weight among the study groups. Multiplex box and whisker plots conform that intergroup dispersions in the weight height ratio was greater for the experimental group than for the control group. The pattern results was similar for the weight-head circumference ratio. We concluded that adequate control of glucose metabolism disorder during pregnancy results in product with normal growth indices.

[The evolutionary anthropometric profile of the child of a mother with a change in glucose metabolism]. / Perfil antropométrico evolutivo del hijo de madre con alteración en el metabolismo de la glucosa.

There is not sufficient information about the follow up of children belonging to mothers with some degree of glucose metabolism disorder. At The National Institute of Perinatology were studied 151 newborn. The babies were divided into four groups. The group 1 consisting of babies born from mothers with diabetes mellitus type I; group 2 of babies born from mothers with diabetes mellitus type II; group 3 including babies from mother with gestational diabetes and group 4 babies from mothers who presented alteration in glucose metabolism during pregnancy. After the evaluation of the somatic indicator we found an harmonic behavior in group 3 in weight, height and head circumference again. The most important finding was the low correlation in anthropometry at birth and one year of age. Finally we conclude that a strict control on the follow-up of the somatic growth of children, must be achieved because the hypertrophy during the first year of age depends on sociocultural and economic patterns.

[Anthropometry in a group of women with a change in glucose metabolism and its somatic effect on the newborn infant]. / Antropometría en un grupo de mujeres con alteración en el metabolismo de la glucosa y su efecto somático en el recién nacido.

A total of 156 mothers with alterations in the metabolism of glucose and a control group of 42 other women with their respective children were studied at the National Institute of Perinatology. The group of 156 women was divided in four. The first group included mothers with type I diabetes mellitus; group 2 included mothers with type II diabetes mellitus; group 3 included mothers with gestational diabetes and group 4 contained those mothers with gestational alterations to the tolerance of glucose. The anthropometric indicators of the mother, weight and height at the end of the pregnancy, were compared to their respective children according to sex, while considering the group to which they belonged. The greatest weight medium for those mothers for both the male and female population, was found in group 3. With respect to height, the tallest mothers were found in group 2. When using the correlation coefficient, no significant crossovers were found between the weight and height the mother and the weight, length and cephalic perimeter of the newborn. Our results show that women with greater weight at the end of their pregnancy, had heavier babies, but this does not apply to height. We conclude that the presence of macrosomias or alterations in fetal growth can be reduced when an efficient control and early detection of the alteration of glucose metabolism is found in the mother.

Deteccion temprana de secuelas neurologicas. Velocidad de conduccion nerviosa periferica motora en recien nacidos. / Early detection of neurologic sequelae. Peripheral nervous conduction velocity in newborn infants

El objetivo del presente trabajo es evaluar si lo descrito en la literatura en relacion a que la velocidad de conduccion nerviosa periferica depende de la edad gestacional y no se modifica con el peso al nacimiento en recien nacidos de termino hipotroficos es reproducible en recien nacidos pretermino, tambien hipotroficos. Se estudiaron 39 recien nacidos de los cuales 26 fueron pretermino v de ellos, 15 fueron hipotroficos al nacimiento. Los resultados muestran evidencia significativa de que el peso al nacimiento si influye sobre la velocidad de conduccion disminuyendola, ya que tanto cualitativa como cuantitativamente se demostraron diferencias al comparar los valores obtenidos en los recien nacidos eutroficos con los de los hipotroficos. Se senala la potencialidad de la velocidad de conduccion como un indicador que refleja el grado de maduracion del sistema nervioso y que pone de manifiesto el efecto que sobre dicho proceso tienen las condiciones adversas que conducen a retardo en el crecimiento intra-uterino.Velocidad de conduccion nerviosa, Recien nacidos hipotroficos