title: Plasma vitamin A and carotene in maternal and cord blood.
abstract: Mean plasma vitamin A and carotene levels in 200 pregnant women at term were 30.3 mcg% and 43.6 mcg%. Sixty-four percent of women had vitamin A in lower limit of normal (less than 33 mcg%) and 26% had deficient and low levels of carotene. Mean values of plasma vitamin A and carotene in cord blood was 13.7 mcg% and 16.5 mcg%, respectively, and lower than that of maternal blood at term. Women who had adequate levels of vitamin A (greater than 33 mcg%) in blood had significantly higher intake of vitamin A. Similarly the newborn babies of those mothers who had adequate levels of vitamin A had significantly higher levels of vitamin A than those of mothers who had inadequate levels (less than 33 mcg%).
authors.affiliation: Pakistan Medical Research Council, Research Centre, Karachi.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ibrahim
authors.forename: T J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Hassan
authors.forename: S N
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Jafarey
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002338:Carotenoids / Q000097:blood*; D005260:Female; D005312:Fetal Blood / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008875:Middle Aged; D009752:Nutritional Status / Q000502:physiology*; D010154:Pakistan; D011247:Pregnancy; D012923:Social Class; D014801:Vitamin A / Q000097:blood*
chemical_list: D014801:Vitamin A; D002338:Carotenoids