PMID- 8213099
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19931123
LR  - 20190815
IS  - 0001-6349 (Print)
IS  - 0001-6349 (Linking)
VI  - 72
IP  - 7
DP  - 1993 Oct
TI  - Relationship between iron status in pregnant women and their newborn babies. 
      Investigation in a Spanish population.
PG  - 534-7
AB  - We studied 157 pregnant women living in Merida, Spain, during their third 
      trimester of pregnancy and their newborns at birth, analyzing the mother's and 
      the umbilical cord's blood for hemoglobin, hematocrit, mean corpuscular 
      hemoglobin concentration (MCHC), serum iron and serum ferritin. We observed 
      statistically correlations between hemoglobin and hematocrit values of the mother 
      with erythrocyte count, hemoglobin and hematocrit values of her child and between 
      serum iron of mother and child. The blood levels in the umbilical cord did not 
      decrease until the ferritin value of the mother was < 12 micrograms/l. Under 
      these conditions the ferritin levels in the umbilical cord blood (80.4 
      micrograms/l) were significantly lower than in those newborn infants whose mother 
      had adequate ferritin levels (123 micrograms/l). We deduce that maternal iron 
      status seems to condition, at least partially, fetal iron status, specially when 
      the mother has some deficiencies. We did not find a lower birth weight in 
      children of anemic mothers. Actually, we found an inverse correlation between 
      maternal hemoglobin values and infant birth weight (r = -0.1731, p < 0.05). It is 
      possible that the demands on the mother are increased in the case of a newborn 
      infant of greater size.
FAU - Gaspar, M J
AU  - Gaspar MJ
AD  - Department of Clinical Chemistry, Hospital del INSALUD, Guadalajara, Spain.
FAU - Ortega, R M
AU  - Ortega RM
FAU - Moreiras, O
AU  - Moreiras O
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand
JT  - Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica
JID - 0370343
RN  - 0 (Hemoglobins)
RN  - 9007-73-2 (Ferritins)
RN  - E1UOL152H7 (Iron)
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Erythrocytes/chemistry
MH  - Female
MH  - Ferritins/blood
MH  - Fetal Blood/chemistry
MH  - Hematocrit
MH  - Hemoglobins/analysis
MH  - Humans
MH  - Infant, Newborn/*blood
MH  - Iron/*blood
MH  - Pregnancy
MH  - Pregnancy Trimester, Third/*blood
MH  - Spain
EDAT- 1993/10/01 00:00
MHDA- 1993/10/01 00:01
CRDT- 1993/10/01 00:00
PHST- 1993/10/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1993/10/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1993/10/01 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.3109/00016349309058158 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand. 1993 Oct;72(7):534-7. doi: 10.3109/00016349309058158.