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Abstract
This study was designed in a cross sectional manner to study the fetal birth weight and gestational age as a predictor for neonatal hypoglycemia in non diabetic pregnancy.
The study population was 2000 non diabetic pregnant were attending the Ain Shams University Maternity Hospital for delivery either vaginaly or by caesarean section aging 18-40 years ,gestational age 37-40 weeks having singleton pregnancy and the delivered new born birth weight is 2000 grams or more.
Birth weight of newborn of non diabetic mothers is taken and put in the weight for gestational age chart according to the gender to determine if the newborn is average for gestational age or large for gestational age or small for gestational age.
2 ml venous blood samples will be obtained from the neonate 2 hours after delivery under complete sterile condition to estimate the blood glucose level.
According to the results of the test the newborns were categorized into two groups:
1- Hypoglycemic group: when the blood glucose level is below 40 mg/dl.
2- Non hypoglycemic group: when the blood glucose level from 40 mg/dl or above.
The prevalence of hypoglycemia was 4.3%. The prevalence of hypoglycemia among the average for gestational age group was 2.5%, among the large for gestational age group was 7.5% and among the small for gestational age group was 18%.
We found that higher temperature, higher parity, absence of maternal asthma, smoking, history of preeclampsia, small for gestational age and obesity were found to be significant predictors associated with higher risk of neonatal hypoglycemia.
The results of our study did not show a statistically significant difference in some factors that prior studies have identified as predictors of risk, such as mode of delivery and fetal gender.