Epidemiology of XXXX in Mauritius island.

@entity1 @entity851 @entity101 @entity3036 @entity1468 @entity204
In Mauritius, the maternal mortality rate (MMR) was 21 per 100000 live births for the year 2001 and this is comparable with figures from developed countries. There has been poor documentation in the area of @entity101 disorders of pregnancy until recently in the island. Consequently, we analysed data from the Ministry of Health. @entity101 of pregnancy occurred in 6.7% gravidas in 2001. Out of four maternal @entity204 recorded in 2001, two occurred due to severe @entity3036 . In the second part of our study, we scrutinised also the obstetric notes and interviewed 862 hospitalised @entity1 from four main hospitals of the island between 1995 and 1997. The majority of @entity1 were affected by non-proteinuric @entity101 (70%), followed by @entity1468 (24%) and chronic @entity101 (6%). Preeclamptic primi and multigravidas developed the condition earlier and also gave birth to growth-retarded babies. Highly significant results supported the relationship between @entity851 and @entity1468 in different parities, irrespective of the length of exposure of the baby in utero. Preeclampsia affects both Indo-Mauritians and Creoles to the same extent, but the latter are much more prone to gestational @entity101 . In addition, @entity101 disorders of pregnancy are more a problem of multigravid @entity1 in Creoles while they are more classically a condition of primigravidae in Indians.
