COMMON CAUSES OF RISKY PREGNANCY AMONG PREGNANT WOMEN IN IRAQ

Dr. Najah Abdulnabi Ali Alhaddad*

ABSTRACT

Introduction: Pregnancy factors are those that affect women's pregnancy and pregnancy requirements and its important because their consequences have a higher likelihood of complications or health problems during pregnancy. Aims: to assess the most common causes of risky pregnancy among women in Iraq during the study period. Method: A retrospective study was carried out at the Life Statistics Center of the Iraqi Ministry of Health within 3 months. During this period, the study samples were collected for three years, starting from 2014, 2016 and 2017. For 2015, information was not available in the document. Data was entered to Excel sheet and the STATA software program was used to analyze this data. Results: Out of 1390205 of pregnant women, the pregnant are suffering from (anemia, previous abortion, previous caesarean, still birth, blood group incompatibility, hypertension, multiple gestation, diabetes, and hemorrhage). The higher percentage were in 2017, followed by 2016 and less in 2014. Conclusion: anemia is a most common cause of risky pregnancy among pregnant women followed by history of caesarean section and abortion.

Keywords: Risky, Anemia, pregnancy; Iraq, causes.