Risk factors associated with preeclampsia among mothers admitted at Kampala International University Teaching Hospital
| dc.contributor.author | Maiteyo, Abdinoor Ahmed | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-11-15T09:50:43Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-11-15T09:50:43Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-12 | |
| dc.description | A research report submitted to the Faculty of Clinical Medicine and Dentistry of in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of a degree of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery of Kampala International University | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Preeclampsia is a syndrome characterized by the onset of hypertension and proteinuria after 20weeks of gestation. Additional signs and symptoms that can occur including visual disturbances, headache, epigastric pain, thrombocytopenia, and abnormal liver function (Bulletins--Obstetrics, 2002).There are a wide range of risk factors associated with preeclampsia in pregnancy, varying from the history of previous preeclampsia, parity, age and comorbidities according to the World Health Organization (WHO). A retrospective study was conducted among a sample of 43 mothers randomly selected from those admitted to maternity ward between October 2013 and September 2014The study found out that 10 of the 43 mothers whose records were followed were admitted with preeclampsia, and that 3 of these mothers were aged between 38-47, and 3 of them were gravida2 and 4. The most important comorbidity in this study was HIV with 3 out of the 10 mothers being HIV positive, and the presence of past preeclampsia. The study concluded that the prevalence of preeclampsia is extremely high among the mothers admitted to the maternity ward in the year 2013 and the most common risk factors associated with the development of preeclampsia was maternal age, and the presence of HIV was the most significant associated comorbidity with preeclampsia. And recommended that the hospital should start conducting community outreach programs to small health units to improve the detection and treatment of preeclampsia in the region, the study recommended that another study with a wider scientific scope should be designed to determine the cause of preeclampsia in first pregnancy and the prevalence of comorbidity should be determined in another study using a large number of mothers | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12306/3239 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Kampala International University, School of Health Sciences | en_US |
| dc.subject | Preeclampsia among mothers | en_US |
| dc.subject | Kampala International University Teaching Hospital | en_US |
| dc.title | Risk factors associated with preeclampsia among mothers admitted at Kampala International University Teaching Hospital | en_US |
| dc.type | Other | en_US |