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Journal of Tropical Pediatrics 1991 37(4):149-152; doi:10.1093/tropej/37.4.149
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Relationship of Maternal Serum Ferritin with Foetal Serum Ferritin, Birth Weight and Gestation

Manorama Bhargava, MD*, Parvathi U. Iyer, MD***, Ramesh Kumar, MD**, Siddharth Ramji, MD***, Vinod Kapani, MSc*** and Santosh K. Bhargava, MD***

* Departments of Haematalogy All India Institute of Medical Sciences Ansari Nagar, New Delhi 110–029, India
** Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences Ansari Nagar, New Delhi 110–029, India
*** Department of Pediatrics, Safdarjung Hospital New Delhi, India

Haemoglobin and ferritin estimations employing the micro-ELISA technique were done in 308 random selected mothers in labour and their newborns. The values of haemoglobin and serum ferritin as well as birth weight and gestation of babies born to iron depleted, and mildly and moderately anaemic mothers were no different from those of newborns of non-anaemic women. However, the values of serum ferritin per se in all these newborns were much lower than what are generally reported from the western countries. Babies born to severely anaemic women, on the other hand, showed elevated levels of haemoglobin and serum ferritin, and lower birth weights and gestation. Thus, mild to moderate iron deficiency in the mother does contribute to lower iron reserves in the foetus, if not frank iron depletion, and severe iron deficiency anaemia to lower birth weight and gestation.


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