Health trajectories of women who used cocaine and/or cannabis during pregnancy. Retrospective cohort study in La Pampa, Argentina
Introduction: the use of cocaine and cannabis during pregnancy is a growing problem, of importance for the World Public Health. Women can present a wide range of complications during pregnancy and perinatally, although knowledge about evolution thereafter is scarce. Objectives: to describe and compa...
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Universidad Nacional Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas. Secretaria de Ciencia y Tecnología
2020
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| Sumario: | Introduction: the use of cocaine and cannabis during pregnancy is a growing problem, of importance for the World Public Health. Women can present a wide range of complications during pregnancy and perinatally, although knowledge about evolution thereafter is scarce. Objectives: to describe and compare health trajectories up to 4 years pospartum of user and not user women of cocaine and/or cannabis during pregnancy. Methods: retrospective cohort study with a comparison group consisting of 2 not users women for each user during pregnancy. User women were detected in Neonatology Division of a public Hospital with an urine pospartum test, between 2009 and 2013. Results: 29 women cocaine and/or cannabis users during pregnancy, and 58 not users were evaluated. In the first group, 93% women were polydrug users. Users had higher frequency of: history of violence in childhood ((p<0,001), previous (p<0,0045) and acquired (p<0,0007) disease, medical (p<0,0001) and odontological (p=0,0002) emergency consultations, hospitalizations (p<0,0001), and violent deaths in relatives, compared with non users.
Conclusions: women who used cocaine and/or cocaine during pregnancy had a greater history of violence and illness, emergency medical and dental consultation, hospitalization and deaths, than non users. Injuries where the main cause of hospitalization. In the variables evaluated, the differences between consumers and non-consumers of pregnancy were significative.
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