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ANTHROPOMETRIC AND BIOCHEMICAL CHANGES DURING PREGNANCY IN ASIAN AND EUROPEAN MOTHERS HAVING LIGHT FOR GESTATIONAL AGE BABIES
Article first published online: 23 AUG 2005
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1981.tb01688.x
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BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Volume 88, Issue 10, pages 999–1008, October 1981
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How to Cite
Bissenden, J. G., Scott, P. H., King, J., Hallum, J., Mansfield, H. N. and Wharton, B. A. (1981), ANTHROPOMETRIC AND BIOCHEMICAL CHANGES DURING PREGNANCY IN ASIAN AND EUROPEAN MOTHERS HAVING LIGHT FOR GESTATIONAL AGE BABIES. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 88: 999–1008. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1981.tb01688.x
Publication History
- Issue published online: 23 AUG 2005
- Article first published online: 23 AUG 2005
- Received December 27, 1979/Accepted May 13, 1981
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Summary
An assessment of nutritional status using anthropometric and biochemical measurements was made during pregnancy in 8 European and 15 Asian women who produced babies which were light for gestational age. These results were compared with similar measurements in women of both races with normal or pathological pregnancies (hypertension or bleeding) who produced babies of normal size. European mothers of light for gestational age babies with one exception had pregnancies complicated by pathology. They were heavy and fat but apart from urinary peptide hydroxyproline (which was reduced), no other biochemical measurement was specifically associated with poor intrauterine growth. Asian mothers of light for gestational age babies mostly had pregnancies not complicated by obstetric pathology. They gained less weight and fat during the second trimester and during the third trimester, they had biochemical evidence of a poorer nutritional status. Some of the biochemical changes were also noted in pathological pregnancies even though the mothers gained weight and fat normally and had well grown babies.