Reproductive Risk Factors of Preeclampsia Cahyono Intim1, Setyorini Dhiana1,* 1Department of Nursing, Health Polytechnic of Surabaya *Corresponding author: Dhiana Setyorini, E-mail: indhiatelu@gmail.com, Karangmenjangan Street, Surabaya, Indonesia
Online published on 27 November, 2019. Abstract Preeclampsia or eclampsia (PE-E) is one of the morbidity or prenatal mortality causes in Indonesia. Reproductive factors which are risk factors for preeclampsia are age, parity, distance of pregnancy, offspring of preeclampsia and eclampsia, and multiple pregnancies. Preeclampsia is a specific syndrome in the pregnancy that usually happens after the 20 week of pregnancy, signed by high blood pressure, edema, and protein in the urine. The design of this study was case control. The sample were 704 maternal, that consist of 352 maternal with preeclampsia-eclampsia and 352 maternal from control group that was taken by purposive sampling method, was analyzed using the multinomial logistic regression. The results of this study indicate that the risk of pre-eclampsia was increased in women aged <20 years and >35 years (OR 3.454, CI95% 2.118–5.633), multiparous (OR 1.344, 95% CI 0.878–2.055) and PE-E descendants (OR = 3.052, 95% CI = 1.358–6.857). The conclusion of this study is that reproductive factors are a risk factor for preeclampsia including age, multiparous and PE-E descendants. Top Keywords Reproductive factors, risk, preeclampsia. Top |