{"title":"Comportamento do médico residente diante das questões sobre função sexual no ciclo gravídico-puerperal: comparação entre três especialidades - Ginecologia/Obstetrícia, Psiquiatria e Clínica Médica","authors":"T. C. Vieira","doi":"10.1590/S0100-72032011000300009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/S0100-72032011000300009","url":null,"abstract":"ObjetivO: comparar o comportamento do médico residente de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia (GO) com o de Clínica Médica (CM) e Psiquiatria (Psiq), perante as questões da função sexual, enfocando sua conduta profissional. MetOdOlOgia: estudo observacional,transversal, usando questionário adaptado, autorresponsivo e anônimo. ResultadOs: 154 questionários (92,5%) foram considerados válidos (74CM, 33 Psiq e 47GO). Somente 19,5 % dos médicos investigam queixas sexuais espontaneamente, apesar de que 68,2% concordam que estas questões devem fazer parte de todas as anamneses. Somente 22,7%, das 3 especialidades, afirmam ter segurança total para responder a questões sexuais; entretanto diante destas, 76% ouvem e orientam e 70,8% admitem faltar conhecimento específico sobre sexualidade. O GO foi o profissional mais indicado para tratar disfunções sexuais femininas (89%).Entretanto, o GO não conhece o ciclo de resposta sexual feminina (74,5%), além de que, ele se considera menos apto a tratar desejo hipoativo (25,5%) e anorgasmia (17%) comparado com o de psiquiatria (respectivamente, 69,7% e 57,6%). A maioria achou o estudo instigante e educativo: Clínica Médica (47,3%), Psiquiatria (69,7%) e Ginecologia/Obstetrícia (74,5%). A participação,neste trabalho aumentou o interesse pelo tema em todas as especialidades (60,4%). COnClusões: residentes de Psiquiatria investigaram espontaneamente e com maior frequência as queixas sexuais de suas pacientes, além de relatarem maior aptidão em tratar desejo hipoativo e anorgasmia, enquanto os GO sentiram maior habilidade para: lubrificação deficiente, sinussorragia e hipotonia e/ou rotura do assoalho pélvico. Os residentes de Clínica Médica, por seu lado, foram os que menos indagaram, menos atenderam e não se consideraram aptos a tratar queixas sexuais. Os médicos das 3 áreas de residência afirmaram não possuírem segurança, nem conhecimento específico suficiente para responder às questões sobre função sexual. A maioria dos residentes considerou este estudo instigante e educativo. Somente responder ao questionário despertou interesse em ampliar o conhecimento na área de Sexualidade.","PeriodicalId":47257,"journal":{"name":"Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetricia","volume":"33 1","pages":"0-0"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2011-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67234548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The sexuality in women undergoing total and subtotal hysterectomy","authors":"Nayara de Paula Faleiros","doi":"10.1590/S0100-72032011000300012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/S0100-72032011000300012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47257,"journal":{"name":"Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetricia","volume":"33 1","pages":"151-151"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2011-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67234593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tenilson Amaral Oliveira, Elisane Melo, Márcia Maria Auxiliadora de Aquino, Corintio Mariani Neto
{"title":"Eficácia de dinoprostone e misoprostol para indução do trabalho de parto em nulíparas","authors":"Tenilson Amaral Oliveira, Elisane Melo, Márcia Maria Auxiliadora de Aquino, Corintio Mariani Neto","doi":"10.1590/S0100-72032011000300003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/S0100-72032011000300003","url":null,"abstract":"PURPOSE: to determine the efficacy and safety of dinoprostone and misoprostol for the induction of vaginal childbirth, with or without the use of oxytocin in nulliparous women. METHODS: in this retrospective observational study, 238 patients were subjected to the induction of delivery from January 2008 to February 2010 with the use of misoprostol 25 mcg by the vaginal route or a pessary containing 10 mg of dinoprostone. A total of 184 patients were selected, with the following characteristics: nulliparous, gestational age of 37-42 weeks, singleton pregnancies, cephalic presentation, intact membranes, and Bishop score < 3. Obstetric and neonatal data were analyzed and compared between groups. The Student t-test, chi-square test and Fisher's exact test were used for statistical analysis, with the level of significance set at p<0.05. RESULTS: the rate of vaginal childbirth did not differ significantly in patients who used misoprostol and dinoprostone (43.2% versus 50%; p = 0.35, respectively). The ripening of cervix was higher in the group treated with misoprostol (87.3% versus 75.6%, p=0.04). The use of oxytocin was necessary in 58.8% of the misoprostol group and 57.3% in the dinoprostone group after the ripening of cervix. Failed induction was the primary indication of caesarean section delivery in both groups, with no significant difference between them. Fetal and maternal adverse events, such as tachysystole and Apgar scores were similar. CONCLUSION: dinoprostone and misoprostol are both effective for vaginal childbirth induction, although they need to be combined with oxytocin. They showed a similar safety profile, with misoprostol being more efficient regarding cervical ripening.","PeriodicalId":47257,"journal":{"name":"Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetricia","volume":"33 1","pages":"118-122"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2011-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67234497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Vilarino, Bianca Bianco, A. Martins, Denise Maria Christofolini, C. Barbosa
{"title":"Endometriose em cicatriz cirúrgica: uma série de 42 pacientes","authors":"F. Vilarino, Bianca Bianco, A. Martins, Denise Maria Christofolini, C. Barbosa","doi":"10.1590/S0100-72032011000300004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/S0100-72032011000300004","url":null,"abstract":"PURPOSE: to evaluate the frequency and clinical picture of patients with incisional endometriosis. METHODS: retrospective descriptive study performed from the medical records of patients that underwent nodules resection in the surgical scar at Faculdade de Medicina do ABC, from November 1990 to September 2003. The age, parity, number of cesarean sections, symptoms, tumor location, initial diagnosis, treatment, and recurrences were surveyed and analyzed. The results were reported as percentage, mean, and standard deviation. RESULTS: we found 42 patients that were diagnosed with scar endometriosis. From these 42 cases, 37 were of endometriosis on cesarean section scar; 3 cases of episiotomies and 2 cases on bladder in scar of hysterography. The mean age of the patients was 32.4 years old, standard deviation of ±6.2 years. All of them had previous obstetric surgery, and the main complaint was nodulation with perimenstrual pain in 40% of the cases. In 57% of the patients, the clinical evaluation was confirmed by pelvic or transvaginal ultrasonography. Patients were treated with total resection, and recurrence occurred in only two cases. CONCLUSION: scar surgical endometriosis is uncommon; however, the clinical diagnosis is easy when the signs and symptoms are known. The effective treatment is surgical resection.","PeriodicalId":47257,"journal":{"name":"Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetricia","volume":"33 1","pages":"123-127"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2011-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67234525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. A. Nai, Karen Karina Gusmão de Souza, Eliane Rissato Rodrigues, Ricardo Luís Barbosa
{"title":"Presença de células da junção escamo-colunar em esfregaços cérvico-vaginais de mulheres acima de 40 anos","authors":"G. A. Nai, Karen Karina Gusmão de Souza, Eliane Rissato Rodrigues, Ricardo Luís Barbosa","doi":"10.1590/S0100-72032011000300005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/S0100-72032011000300005","url":null,"abstract":"PURPOSE: to evaluate the frequency of cells of the cervical transitional zone (CTZ) in cervicovaginal smears of women older than 40 years. METHODS: we conducted a retrospective study with review of 24,316 Pap smear reports during the period from January 2005 to December 2008, to evaluate the cases without material of the CTZ. Exclusion criteria were: total hysterectomy, smears with severe atrophy or unsatisfactory for analysis, cases without visualization of the cervix or the external orifice of the cervix closed during examination and records without the patient's age. A total of 21,866 cervical-vaginal cytology reports were included in this study. We evaluated the relationship between the presence of material of the CTZ and use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in patients aged 40 years or more and the relationship between presence of material of the CTZ and a moderate to intense inflammatory process in patients aged 39 years or less. Data were analyzed statistically by the χ2 test and Odds Ratio. RESULTS: only 11.2% of patients younger than 40 years had no material from the CTZ in their smears, while 47% patients older than 40 years had no material from the CTZ (p=0.0001). Most patients aged 40 years or more (92.1%) did not use HRT and this was not a predictor of incidence of CTZ material in these patients (p> 0.05). In contrast, most patients younger than 40 years without CTZ material (74.5%) had abundant inflammation in the smears (p=0.0001). CONCLUSION: patients aged 40 years or more had a lower incidence of material from the CTZ in cervicovaginal smears, and inflammation was a factor that contributed to the absence of CTZ material in the smears from patients younger than 40 years.","PeriodicalId":47257,"journal":{"name":"Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetricia","volume":"33 1","pages":"128-132"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2011-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1590/S0100-72032011000300005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67234537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maria Thereza Aragão Albuquerque, Barbosa Cabral Micussi, Elvira Maria Mafaldo Soares, T. Lemos, Tereza Neuma Sousa Brito, João Batista da Silva, Técia Maria do Oliveira Maranhão
{"title":"Correlação entre as queixas de incontinência urinária de esforço e o pad test de uma hora em mulheres na pós-menopausa","authors":"Maria Thereza Aragão Albuquerque, Barbosa Cabral Micussi, Elvira Maria Mafaldo Soares, T. Lemos, Tereza Neuma Sousa Brito, João Batista da Silva, Técia Maria do Oliveira Maranhão","doi":"10.1590/S0100-72032011000200003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/S0100-72032011000200003","url":null,"abstract":"OBJECTIVE: to correlate complaints of stress urinary incontinence and the results of a one-hour pad test in pre- and postmenopausal women. METHODS: cross-sectional study conducted on 60 postmenopausal volunteers divided into two groups: one consisting of 34 women with involuntary loss of urine due to stress incontinence and the other consisting of 26 women without involuntary loss of urine. A control group of 15 premenopausal women with normal menstrual cycles and no urinary complaints was also used. All women underwent clinical and laboratory analysis as well as the one-hour pad test. Patients were considered to be incontinent when sanitary pad weight post-test was more than 1 g. Data were submitted to descriptive statistics, parametric ANOVA, post-hoc Tukey test and Pearson's correlation. RESULTS: all postmenopausal women presented with stress urinary incontinence during the pad test, both those with urinary loss (4 g) and with no previous loss (3.5 g). A strong correlation was observed between urinary loss and time since menopause (r=0.8; p<0.01) and body mass index (r=0.7; p=0.01). Premenopausal women were continent during the pad test (0.4 g). CONCLUSIONS: the results of the one-hour pad test showed that all postmenopausal women exhibited stress urinary incontinence, including those without urine loss on effort. Urine loss was correlated with time since menopause and body mass index.","PeriodicalId":47257,"journal":{"name":"Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetricia","volume":"33 1","pages":"70-74"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2011-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67234392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Vilarino, Bianca Bianco, Denise Maria Christofolini, T. G. Lerner, C. Barbosa
{"title":"Análise do polimorfismo Fok1 do gene VDR em mulheres inférteis com endometriose","authors":"F. Vilarino, Bianca Bianco, Denise Maria Christofolini, T. G. Lerner, C. Barbosa","doi":"10.1590/S0100-72032011000200002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/S0100-72032011000200002","url":null,"abstract":"PURPOSE: to evaluate the frequency of VDR gene polymorphism Fok1 in infertile women with endometriosis and Control and its relation to the disease. METHODS: a case-control study that included 147 infertile women with endometriosis and 154 fertile women without endometriosis as Control. Fok1 polymorphism (rs10735810, T2C), which promotes a T/C exchange in exon 2 of the VDR gene, was identified by the polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP), that involves the combination of amplification by PCR and digestion with restriction endonuclease. The χ2 test was used to compare allele and genotype frequencies between groups. All p-values were two-tailed and a p-value < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. RESULTS: the TT, TC and CC genotype frequencies of VDR Fok1 polymorphism were 44.2%, 46.9% and 8.9% in infertile women with endometriosis and 41.6%, 50% and 8.4% in the Control Group. No significant difference was found (p=0.8), even when the patients were subdivided according to the stage of endometriosis (p=0.3 for minimal and mild endometriosis and p=0.2 for moderate and severe endometriosis). Alleles T and C were present, respectively, in 67.6% and 32.3% of infertile women with endometriosis (p=0.8), in 63.5% and 36.5% of women with minimal/mild endometriosis (p=0.5), in 72.5% and 27.5% of women with moderate/severe endometriosis (p=0.2), and in 66.6% and 33.4% of the Control Group. No statistically significant difference was found among any groups and the Control. CONCLUSION: the results suggest that VDR gene polymorphism Fok1 does not confer genetic susceptibility to endometriosis-associated infertility in the Brazilian population.","PeriodicalId":47257,"journal":{"name":"Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetricia","volume":"33 1","pages":"65-69"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2011-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67234384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Patricia Moretti Rehder, Belmiro Gonçalves Pereira, João Luiz Pinto e Silva
{"title":"Resultados gestacionais e neonatais em mulheres com rastreamento positivo para diabetes mellitus e teste oral de tolerância à glicose - 100g normal","authors":"Patricia Moretti Rehder, Belmiro Gonçalves Pereira, João Luiz Pinto e Silva","doi":"10.1590/S0100-72032011000200005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/S0100-72032011000200005","url":null,"abstract":"OBJETIVO: avaliar a frequencia de resultados gestacionais e neonatais desfavoraveis em mulheres com rastreamento positivo e diagnostico negativo para diabetes mellitus gestacional. METODOS: trata-se de um estudo de corte transversal, retrospectivo e descritivo realizado entre 2000 e 2009. Foram incluidas no estudo 409 gestantes com rastreamento positivo para diabetes mellitus. As variaveis estudadas foram: maternas (idade, indice de massa corporea, antecedente de cesarea, macrossomia ou diabetes mellitus em gestacao anterior, antecedente pessoal e familiar de diabetes mellitus e hipertensao arterial cronica) e neonatais (poli-hidrâmnio, idade gestacional por ocasiao do parto, prematuridade, cesarea, recem-nascido (RN) grande para idade gestacional (GIG), macrossomia, indice de Apgar, sindrome do desconforto respiratorio, hipoglicemia e hiperbilirrubinemia). Inicialmente foi realizada analise descrita uni e multivariada para a ocorrencia de fatores de risco e desfechos neonatais. Foram descritas as prevalencias e respectivos intervalos de confianca a 95%. RESULTADOS: em 255 (62,3%) das gestantes a via de parto foi cesarea. Quanto aos resultados perinatais, 14,2% dos RN foram classificados como prematuros e 19,3% dos RN como GIG. Os fatores de risco correlacionados com RN GIG foram sobrepeso ou obesidade, idade materna e antecedente de macrossomia em gestacao anterior. CONCLUSOES: na populacao com fatores de risco positivos ou glicemia de jejum alterada na primeira consulta do pre-natal, mesmo com curva glicemica normal observa-se taxa de RN GIG elevada assim como indice de cesarea acima dos valores habitualmente presentes nas populacoes consideradas de baixo risco. As gravidas com tais caracteristicas constituem um grupo diferenciado.","PeriodicalId":47257,"journal":{"name":"Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetricia","volume":"33 1","pages":"81-86"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2011-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67234436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impacto de um programa de orientação dietética sobre a velocidade de ganho de peso de gestantes atendidas em unidades de saúde","authors":"M. R. Vítolo, M. Bueno, C. Gama","doi":"10.1590/S0100-72032011000100002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/S0100-72032011000100002","url":null,"abstract":"PURPOSE: to evaluate the impact of dietary counseling on controlling weight gain in pregnant women, who were served in a public health service facility. METHODS: the study was conducted at a known health unit located in the metropolitan region of the city of Porto Alegre, in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Three hundred and fifteen pregnant women between the 10th and 29th week of gestation were randomized to Control and Intervention Groups. The Intervention Group received dietary counseling according to nutritional status, and pregnant women in the Control Group were instructed to follow the routine of the health service facility. Weight and height were measured, and the body mass index (BMI) was calculated. The pre-gestational nutritional status was determined according to the following BMI criteria: low weight ( 30 kg/m2). The nutritional status during pregnancy was determined according to the BMI curve for gestational age adopted by the Health Ministry of Brazil. Data were analyzed by the relative risk and respective 95% confidence interval, and by the Student's t-test and χ2 test. Statistical significance was set at p<0.05. RESULTS: the assessment of nutritional status before pregnancy showed that 28.0% of the women were overweight and 4.1% were underweight. In the first and last interview during pregnancy, the rates of prevalence of excessive weight were 36.2 and 46.0%, respectively. The intervention proved to be effective in reducing the rate of weekly weight gain of pregnant women with excess weight (342.2 versus 420.2; p=0.015) and the prevalence of clinical complications (9.2 versus 24.85; p<0.001). CONCLUSIONS: dietary counseling was effective in decreasing the weight gain of pregnant women who were overweight and reducing clinical complications, such as gestational diabetes, preeclampsia, infant low weight, and prematurity in the Intervention Group.","PeriodicalId":47257,"journal":{"name":"Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetricia","volume":"33 1","pages":"13-19"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67234312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Silvio Romero Gonçalves e Silva, J. Martins, Simone Seixas, Daniela Conceição Gomes da Silva, Sidney Pereira Pinto Lemos, Patrícia Veruska Ribeiro Barbosa Lemos
{"title":"Defeitos congênitos e exposição a agrotóxicos no Vale do São Francisco","authors":"Silvio Romero Gonçalves e Silva, J. Martins, Simone Seixas, Daniela Conceição Gomes da Silva, Sidney Pereira Pinto Lemos, Patrícia Veruska Ribeiro Barbosa Lemos","doi":"10.1590/S0100-72032011000100003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/S0100-72032011000100003","url":null,"abstract":"PURPOSE: to evaluate associations between parental exposure to pesticides and births with congenital defects in Sao Francisco Valley, as well as the demographic profile and the defects found. METHODS: in this case-control study, each case (newborns with congenital defects) had two controls (healthy newborns). The subjects were born in the city of Petrolina, in Sao Francisco Valley, in 2009. The sample consisted of 42 cases and 84 controls. Data were gathered by a structured questionnaire adapted from Latin-American Collaborative Study of Congenital Malformations (ECLAMC), with the addition of questions related to exposure to pesticides, analysis of the medical records and contact with the hospital's pediatrician. The χ2 test was performed with a significance level of 5% to identify the variables with the greatest differences between case and control groups. Odds Ratio (OR) for the sample was calculated, as well as the OR obtained by logistic regression analysis, and finally, multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed. RESULTS: there was a greater exposure to pesticides during pregnancy in infants with congenital defects compared to healthy subjects. Increased risk was observed when at least one parent was exposed to pesticides (adjusted OR = 1.3; 95%CI = 0.4 - 3.9). The sociodemographic variables associated with congenital defects were: low school level, low weight, prematurity, young parents, chronic diseases, and physical factors. Multiple malformations and defects of the musculoskeletal and nervous systems were more frequently found. CONCLUSIONS: the present study suggests an association between exposure to pesticides and the occurrence of congenital defects, although the data were not significant.","PeriodicalId":47257,"journal":{"name":"Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetricia","volume":"13 1","pages":"20-26"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67234374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}