Prevalence of Asymptomatic Urinary Tract Infections in Pregnant Women at Al-Abbasiah Primary Health Care Center in Kerbala | ||
| Kerbala Journal of Medicine | ||
| Article 1, Volume 8, Issue 2, December 2015, Pages 2297-2300 PDF (0 K) | ||
| Author | ||
| Riyadh Dhayhood Al-Zubaidi | ||
| Abstract | ||
| background: Asymptomatic urinary tract infection (UTI) during pregnancy may progress to pyelonephritis. Urinary tract infection increase risk of preterm labor and premature rupture of the membranes, and low-birth-weight infants. Aim: To estimate prevalence of asymptomatic urinary tract infection during pregnancy Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted in a total of 200 women (hundred pregnant women and hundred non-pregnant mothers) with no signs and symptoms of urinary tract infection, from 1st of January to 28th May of 2013. Mid-stream urine samples were collected from all participants and examined directly under high power field, Pus cells > 5 / HPF indicate the presence of infection . Result: forty eight of the pregnant (48%) and twenty (20%) of the non-pregnant had UTI which was statistically very significant (p value ˂ 0.005). Also, there was a significant statistical relation between the UTI and the educational level (p value ˂ 0.05), but there was negative relation with the age (p value > 0.05). Conclusion: there is a high prevalence of asymptomatic urinary tract infections in pregnant and non-pregnant women irrespective of their age or educational level of them | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Pregnancy; asymptomatic UTI; Abbasiah | ||
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