Kumari, RashmiMengi, VijayKumar, Dinesh2016-02-102016-02-102013-04Kumari Rashmi, Mengi Vijay, Kumar Dinesh. Maternal Risk Factors & Pregnancy Wastage in a Rural Population of Jammu District. JK Science Journal of Medical Education and Research. 2013 Apr-June; 15(2): 82-85.http://imsear.searo.who.int/handle/123456789/172266To study the association of maternal risk factors with pregnancy wastage, a prospective study was conducted for a period of one year among 305 pregnant rural women registered with fifty Anganwadi centres in field practice area of Department of Community Medicine, GMC Jammu. All the potential participants were interviewed in person using semi-structured, pre-tested proformae and evaluated clinically. All pregnant women were then followed to study the outcome in terms of abortion, live birth or still birth. Various maternal risk factors like anaemia, Hypertension, Ante partum Haemorrhage, Albuminuria, Glucosuria were studied and their association with pregnancy wastage was analysed using chi-square test. Out of 305 pregnancies followed, 43(14.1%) ended in pregnancy loss i.e. 34 abortions and 9 still births. Pregnancy wastage was statistically significantly associated with anaemia, H.T., APH and Glucosuria. Anaemia was found to independently affect adverse pregnancy outcome on multivariate analysis. Pregnancy wastage in our set up is mainly due to preventable and treatable risk factors which should be taken care of to prevent the wastage.enPregnancy wastageMaternal Risk FactorsProspectiveArticle