Maternal protein depletion and small-for-gestational-age babies.
It has been established that there is a high incidence of small-for-gestational-age babies among underprivileged urban Africans. This community suffers from endemic malnutrition. Serum albumin studies on mothers of low birthweight babies showed a direct correlation with size of babies for gestational age. Thus maternal protein depletion, and probably therefore malnutrition, was associated with the high incidence of small-for-age-gestational babies.
D001724:Birth Weight; D004586:Electrophoresis; D005260:Female; D005865:Gestational Age; D009748:Nutrition Disorders / Q000097:blood; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications; D011488:Protein Deficiency / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology; D012709:Serum Albumin / Q000032:analysis*; D013019:South Africa
D012709:Serum Albumin