A population-based study of preeclampsia and eclampsia in Ecuador: ethnic, geographical and altitudes differences.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In Ecuador eclampsia and preeclampsia were identified as the third cause of maternal death. Like other Latin-American countries, Ecuador has human settlements living from 0 to more than 4000 m of altitude and comprising a wide ethnic-diversity across all these altitude changes. These characteristics offer the possibility to study a wide variety of possible risk factors for preeclampsia and eclampsia.

Methods

We conducted a population-based retrospective study of all deliveries in Ecuador from 2015 through 2017. The main variables analyzed were: altitude, ethnic self-identification, geographic location, and maternal age. The data comes from the Ecuadorian National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC) and the Ecuadorian Ministry of Health. Data information rega

SUBMITTER: Tejera E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7874663 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature