Maternal age and anemia are risk factors of low birthweight of newborn

ABSTRACT

Low birthweight is one of the risk factors that contribute to infant mortality especially during perinatal period. Low birthweight is still a worldwide problem because it is a newborn's death. in essence many factors that affect the incidence of low birthweight they are maternal age and anemia. The purpose of this study is to analyze the maternal age and anemia are risk factors of low birthweight newborn. This research is an analytic observational study with case control study. The sample of this study amounted to 32 cases and 32 controls. The instrument used observation sheet by looking at the data in Medical Record. The analysis used is bivariate with person chi-square test to see the maternal age and anemia are risk factors of low birthweight newborn. The result of this study proved maternal age affect as low birthweight newborn, evidenced by statistic analysis p-value < 0.05 is 0.001 and Odd Ratio 16.2 (Confident Interval 95% 1.94-135.38), and anemia affect as low birthweight newborn, evidenced by statistic analysis p-value < 0.05 is 0.001 and Odd Ratio 6.3 (Confident Interval 95% 3-13.198). The results of this study can be concluded that maternal age and anemia have affect of low birthweight newborn

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