MORTALIDADE MATERNA POR DOENÇAS HIPERTENSIVAS NO PIAUÍ

Abstract

Introduction: Maternal mortality is considered a public health problem, having hypertension as one of the main direct obstetric causes. Objective: To describe the epidemiological profile of maternal mortality from hypertensive disease in Piauí, from 2007 to 2016. Methods: This is a descriptive study, with a quantitative approach, that collected data of maternal deaths related to hypertension from the Mortality Information System (SIM) database and live births from the National Live Birth Information System (SINASC) from 2007 to 2016, in Piauí, available on DATASUS. Results: Out of 441 maternal deaths, 103 deaths (23.3%) were related to hypertensive disease. Most of the deaths (86,4%) occurred in towns and cities not including the capital (Teresina), in 2008 (20.4%), in hospital (88.3%), in puerperium (65.0%), eclampsia being the main cause of death (67.0%). Women who died the most were the brown ones (67.9%), married (29.1%) and single women (29.1%), aged 20-29 years old (40.8%) and 8-11 years of study (20.4%). The Maternal Mortality Ratio for that period was 20.8 deaths per 100,000 live births. Conclusions: Hypertensive diseases are one of the main causes of maternal death in Piauí, whose

implementation of the current confronting policies have not been enough to determine a descending pattern of the number of deaths resulting from those causes.

Keywords: Maternal mortality. Hypertension. Women's health.