Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is one of the main causes of obstetric morbimortality in women who are in the pregnancy-puerperal cycle, since the blood hypercoagulability, provided in pregnancy, significantly increases the probability of the onset of this disease, which is associated with some risk factors, often unknown. The objective of this study was to identify the risk factors associated with thromboembolic events in women in the pregnancy-puerperal cycle.