Hipovitaminose A em gestantes de Santo Antônio de Jesus - Bahia

Abstract

The deficiency of vitamin A (DVA) is defined when the concentrations of this nutritious one, in the cloths, are sufficiently low to produce consequences averse to the health, just like the reduction of the healthy growth of the fetus. The objective of this study investigated the predominance of hipovitaminose A and his associate factors, in usufructuary pregnant women of public utilities of health, in Santo Antônio de Jesus - BA. The drawing of study was of the cross type developed with 76 pregnant women accompanied in unities of health of the family that they give prenatal presence, in the city of Santo Antônio de Jesus, Bahia. The pregnant women were classified as for presence of DVA, in accordance with the criterion of the WHO, which considers the value of the silken retinol less than 0,20 mg/L. The collection of data included the application of a form and subsequent collection of blood for dosage of retinol silken. The data were analysed in the program Stata, version 11. The project of inquiry was approved by the Committee of Ethics in Inquiry of the University Estadual de Feira de Santana, according to determination of the Resolution 466/12 of the National Council of Health. The principal finds of this study show a prevalence of 13 % of motherly DVA. Meantime, they do not signal for any statistically significant association between the studied variables and the DVA. Even so, it was possible to notice that there was a bigger incident of DVA in the group of women with the next characteristics: familiar income less than 2 minimum wages, number of persons in the equal or superior residence 4, number of children> 2, beginning of the prenatal one in the 2nd or 3rd term, lack of projection of the pregnancy, arterial high blood pressure, urinary infection, absence of antitetanic vaccination and habit of smoking during the gestation. In this way, the data indicate a bigger incident of DVA in presence of some conditions of life / health among the studied ones. However, still healthy necessary studies more robust than could contribute in the formulation of social actions that aim for the prevention and promotion for the health in the gestational period, from the control of the DVA.