Obstetric and neonatal factors associated with preterm birth: a five-year cohort

Premature birth constitutes a moment of vulnerability for the newborn, requiring greater care and attention. Therefore, the objective of the study was to analyze obstetric and neonatal factors, related to the outcome, of newborns admitted to a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit born at term and prematurely. This is a cohort, documentary and retrospective study. Clinical, epidemiological and care variables were collected directly from the medical records and discharge summaries of newborns, hospitalized from January 2016 to December 2020, analyzed with descriptive and inferential statistics. 494 newborn hospitalizations were analyzed. Around 70% of these were premature newborns. A relationship was found between premature birth and obstetric characteristics: low number of prenatal consultations (p