A longitudinal study of high-risk Pregnancy and its outcome among Antenatal women residing in an Urban field practice area

Abstract

Background: Majority of pregnancies end happily and healthily, some pregnancies are complicated by issues pertaining to the mother's health, the health of the foetus, or pregnancy-specific issues. These complications can then impact the mother's health and the foetus’s overall survival. High-risk pregnancies pose significant challenges to maternal and foetal health, necessitating a comprehensive understanding of the associated demographic, socio-economic, medical, and obstetric factors. Hence, identification of type of highrisk pregnancy at earliest stage will be useful in directing the appropriate intervention measures for pregnant women for their better outcome. Most of the previous studies are either cross sectional or record based, hence the present study was undertaken as a longitudinal study to find out the outcome of high-risk pregnancy among antenatal women residing in urban field practice area of Belagavi Objectives: To study the outcome of high-risk pregnancy and also to study risk factors associated with high risk pregnancy