Relationship of age, body mass index, gravida, and parity in pregnant women with the incidence of preeclampsia

Objective: According to the 2016 Routine Health Profile Report, the exact causes of maternal mortality are hypertension (33.07%) and bleeding (27%). The exact cause of preeclampsia is unknown and is therefore referredto as the “disease of theory”.This study aimed to determine the relationship between age, BMI, gravida and paritywith preeclampsia.Methods:This cross-sectional, analytic observational study, conducted in Hasan Sadikin Hospital, Bandung.Subjects are pregnant women undergoing antenatal care at Hasan Sadikin Hospital Bandung, in May 2020 a totalof 40 women with a gestational age of ≥ 20 weeks. The univariate and bivariate data were analyzed with SPSS.The Saphiro Wilk test was used to measure the data normality. The ANOVA one-way test and Fisher test wereused to analyze the bivariate data.Results: Results show that of 19 samples with preeclampsia, 13 people (68.4%) were older than 35 years oldwith p-value of 0.042 which indicates a significant relationship. There is no significant difference between BMI, gravida, and parity, with the incidence of preeclampsia with p-value 0.602, 0.664, and 0.661 espectively.Conclusion: There is a relationship between mother’s age and the incidence of preeclampsia in Dr. Hasan SadikinHospital with p value = 0.042. This means older than 35 years old mothers have a tendency to develop preeclampsia.