Association of Maternal Risk Factors to Congenital Anomalies among Infants: A Community Based Study in Rural Areas of Haryana, India
Malik, M.; Khanna, P.; Verma, R.
Journal of the Association of Physicians of India 67(9): 38-41
2019
ISSN/ISBN: 0004-5772 PMID: 31561687 Document Number: 699663
The present study was aimed at assessing Association of Maternal Risk Factors to congenital anomalies of infants. This community based retrospective and cross-sectional study was carried out in 23 rural sub-centres of block Beri, district Jhajjar (Haryana, India) among 920 mothers. A predesigned pretested semistructured questionnaire was used to collect information. Univariate analysis along with logistic regression analysis was performed. The prevalence of congenitally malformations was 1.2%. Most common congenital malformations were cleft lip/palate (18.18%) and hydrocephalus (18.18%). Mothers with < 3 years gap between pregnancies had higher prevalence (1.7%) of congenital malformations in live births. Mothers with previous history of congenital malformation (8.3%) and abortions (13.6%) had higher prevalence of congenitally malformed babies with 2.6 and 4 times higher odds of having a malformed baby. The study concluded that mothers with risk factors like extreme of ages, illiteracy, bad obstetric history, history of previous congenitally malformed baby are at increased risk of fetal congenital malformation.