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Journal of Tropical Pediatrics 1983 29(3):148-150; doi:10.1093/tropej/29.3.148
© 1983 by Oxford University Press
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Maternal Nutrition and Fetal Growth Retardation

SANTOSH K. BHARGAVA*,, USHA BHARGAVA**, SUDARSHAN KUMARI*, NEERA BHARGAVA** and SHANTI GHOSH*

* Department of Pediatrics, Safdarjang Hospital
** Department of Food and Nutrition, Lady Irwin College New Delhi, India

Address for Communication Dr. S. K. Bhargava, M.D., Department of Pediatrics, Safdarjang Hospital, New Delhi, 110 016, India

One hundred and twenty-two mothers with almost similar poor socio-economic background, reliable menstrual history and with newborns of clinically consistent gestational age were investigated to determine the influence of maternal nutrition on fetal growth retardation.

The maternal height, weight and hemoglobin did not show any significant differences in mothers of the three groups of preterm, term small for date and term normal infants. The maternal serum albumin levels were low in preterm and small for date as compared to normal infants, but the differences were statistically significant only between small for date and normal infants. The results suggest the possible role of poor maternal nutrition in causation of fetal growth retardation.


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