Introduction:Violence in the pregnant woman is associated with many newborn factors, but this has hardly been reported in the geographical altitude. Objective: To determine whether there is an association between adolescent pregnancy abuse and its effect on newborn birth weight in high altitude Peru. Method: Retrospective cohort study. Information was taken from 855 pregnant women. The exposure variable was whether they had suffered gender-based violence, the exposure variable was that they had suffered violence, which was associated with the weight and other data of the newborn in Huancayo city, Peru. Results: In the multivariate analysis it was found that there was a higher risk of the child having an inadequate weight when there was physical violence (adjusted relative risk [
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