0000000000916150
AUTHOR
Lorena Bermúdez
Assessment of ten trace elements in umbilical cord blood and maternal blood: association with birth weight
Background Trace elements are an essential nutritional component for humans and inadequate tissue-concentrations may have a significant effect on fetal size. Objective To measure ten trace elements in blood samples from mothers and their newborns, and assess their association with anthropometric characteristics at birth. The effects of other factors on fetal growth, such as biologic characteristics of the infant and mother, were analysed. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted in the Hospital general, University of Valencia, Spain. Healthy pregnant women, and their full-term infants were selected (n = 54 paired samples). Infants were grouped according to birth weight: small for gesta…
Additional file 1. of Assessment of ten trace elements in umbilical cord blood and maternal blood: association with birth weight
In the supplemental material section the results of the correlation coefficients between birth weight, birth length, head circumference and trace elements as well as the correlation coefficients between the maternal and cord serum levels of ten trace elements are presented.