Relationship of maternal and cord blood iron stores | ||
| KUFA MEDICAL JOURNAL | ||
| Article 1, Volume 15, Issue 1, June 2012, Pages 75-78 | ||
| Authors | ||
| MB ChB; Dr. Ban Abdulrridah Saad Dosh; MSc Physiology | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Serum ferritin was measured in 40 term normal pregnant mothers and the corresponding cord blood samples. All of the mothers had received prophylactic oral iron and folate irregularly during pregnancy. The mean (±SD) maternal serum ferritin at the end of pregnancy was 58 ± 36 µg/l (range 19-204 µg/l), compared to a mean of 186 ±61 µg /l (range 67-319 µg/l) in thier newborns. No correlation was found between the serum ferritin of mothers and babies, nor between the serum ferritin and serum iron of mothers at the end of pregnancy or between these parameters in the newborn. | ||
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