Assessment of risk factors and its fetal outcome of preterm birth: in rural tertiary care hospital, Karad, Maharashtra

Background: Preterm birth is an alarming cause of complication in pregnancy that leads to an immenseburden for imitation of children to their householders and health care providers. The present study was tofind out the functional relationship of preterm birth (PTB) and its study parameters at the Krishna Hospitaland Medical Research Centre Karad, Maharashtra from 2016–17. In SPSS (20.0), IBM, INDIA, multipleregression method was used to analyze the results.Methods: This was cross-sectional study done at rural tertiary care hospital, Karad. The examination wasdone in the ob-gyn. ward and various details were collected in the form of the questionnaire at presentthat ward with support of oral discussion of that patient.Results: Age and many more demographic variables were significantly associated with its fetal outcome ofpreterm birth. Also, it seems that pregnancy-induced hypertension, placenta diameter; numbers of meals,delivery mode, and those reasons were effective measures of risk factors of assessment of preterm birth.Conclusions: All the variables analyzed in this study were the part of the determinants of PTB needsto check time to time during the period of pregnancy. Heath care providers still need to take efforts forpregnancy-induced hypertension, placenta diameter