The Relationship Between Preeclampsia And Low Birth Weight Infants In H.Andi Sulthan Daeng Radja Bulukumba

Abstract

Infant and maternal mortality rates are still a serious problem where the biggest cause of perinatal and neonatal infant deaths in Lampung Province in 2014 was caused by LBW. One of the factors causing LBW is a maternal disease, one of which is preeclampsia. Preeclampsia is a typical pregnancy syndrome with minimum criteria of blood pressure = 140/90 mmHg which occurs after 20 weeks of pregnancy and proteinuria where there are 300 mg or more urine protein per 24 hours or 30 mg / dL (1+ on dipstick) in urine samples random. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between preeclampsia rates and low birth weight babies.This study was an observational analytic study with cross-sectional design and data collection was carried out in the delivery room of the H. Andi Sulthan General Hospital in Radja Bulukumba Hospital in July 2018, sampling was done by purposive sampling. The results of the study based on the Chi-Square test showed that there was a significant relationship with p = 0,000. There is a relationship between the level of preeclampsia with the incidence of low birth weight babies (LBW) among mothers in the H. Andi Sulthan Daeng Radja Bulukumba Hospital in 2018.