Incidencia de diabetes gestacional en pacientes que asisten a un Hospital Materno Infantil de la ciudad de Guayaquil.

Abstract

Gestational diabetes is a glucose tolerance disorder that appears in the second half of pregnancy, this can increase perinatal complications. In the preprofessional internships that we carried out in the area of maternal and infant in a hospital in the city of Guayaquil, we observed that there are high numbers of patients with this pathology, due to bad habits in the gestational stage, obesity, lack of information about the care that should be done during pregnancy. Due to this, we formulated the following objective, determining the incidence of Gestational Diabetes in patients attending a maternal and child hospital in the city of Guayaquil. The methodology is a descriptive, prospective quantitative and transversal study, for the collection of information that was used once, the population of 100 patients, the results obtained were: according to the sociodemographic characteristics, the incidence is given in the mass index body weight due to obesity with 46%, in the most frequent clinical manifestations weight loss with 21%, in the discussion, according to other studies, it was possible to identify in most cases the lack of knowledge of this pathology in the gestational stage, reaching the conclusion that gestational diabetes occurs more frequently in obese patients.