Zinc deficiency in pregnant women
Karlinskiĭ, V.M.
Akusherstvo i Ginekologiia 1981(3): 55-56
1981
ISSN/ISBN: 0300-9092 PMID: 7235175 Document Number: 170255
Mean zinc in blood serum of 113 pregnant women was inversely correlated with pregnancy date decreasing from 15.0 to 12.4 mu mol/litre between the 1st and 3rd trimesters. It was below the lower limits of that in 30 healthy, nonpregnant controls (13.1 mu mol/litre) in 8, 15 and 32 of the women in the 3 trimesters, respectively. In 24% it decreased to between 6.1 and 12.62 mu mol/litre. Decrease was similar during 1st and repeat pregnancies. Zn-binding capacity of blood was similar to that in controls.