Hari Shankar1,2, Neeta Kumar3, Rajat Sandhir2, Suneeta Mittal1,4, Tulsi Adhikari5, Arun Kumar1, D N Rao1,6. 1. Department of Biochemistry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, 110029 India. 2. Panjab University, Chandigarh, 160014 India. 3. Indian Council of Medical Research, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, 110029 India. 4. Present Address: Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurgaon, Haryana 122001 India. 5. National Institute of Medical Statistics (ICMR), New Delhi, India. 6. GITAM Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, GITAM University, Rushikonda, Visakhapatnam, 530045 India.
Abstract
AIMS: Pregnancy is a phenomenon associated with dynamic changes in physical, mental and biochemical status of body and demands increased nutritional intake for developing foetus. The level of various micronutrients which act as co-factors for antioxidant enzymes or it-self as antioxidants gets altered with the progression of pregnancy. The present longitudinal study summarized the trend of selected micronutrients level in anaemic (AP) and non-anaemic primigravida (NAP) supplemented with daily and weekly oral iron folic acid (IFA) tablet during pregnancy and postpartum. METHODS: A total of 200 primigravida {N = 100; NAP (Hb > 11 g/dl) and N = 100 AP (Hb = 8-11 g/dl) assigned daily (N = 50) and weekly (N = 50) supplementation} were recruited and overnight fasting blood samples were withdrawn at 13-16 weeks, after 3 months and 6 weeks postpartum. The serum iron, copper, zinc, magnesium and manganese were estimated by inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrophotometer. RESULTS: Serum manganese (p < 0.05) at baseline and magnesium (p < 0.01) at postpartum was significantly different between NAP and AP supplemented with daily IFA tablets. The trend of copper found to be increased during pregnancy and later declined at postpartum in both the groups. Daily supplementation resulted in significantly high iron (p < 0.05) in NAP during third trimester. CONCLUSIONS: Hypozincemia and hypomagnesemia was observed in anaemic pregnancy supplemented with weekly and daily IFA respectively. Clear evidence of altered micronutrients levels during healthy and anaemic pregnancy was seen. The reference values may be drawn from this study for the nutritional assessment during pregnancy for healthy pregnancy outcomes. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Clinical Trial Registry-India, http://ctri.nic.in, CTRI/2014/10/005135.
AIMS: Pregnancy is a phenomenon associated with dynamic changes in physical, mental and biochemical status of body and demands increased nutritional intake for developing foetus. The level of various micronutrients which act as co-factors for antioxidant enzymes or it-self as antioxidants gets altered with the progression of pregnancy. The present longitudinal study summarized the trend of selected micronutrients level in anaemic (AP) and non-anaemic primigravida (NAP) supplemented with daily and weekly oral ironfolic acid (IFA) tablet during pregnancy and postpartum. METHODS: A total of 200 primigravida {N = 100; NAP (Hb > 11 g/dl) and N = 100 AP (Hb = 8-11 g/dl) assigned daily (N = 50) and weekly (N = 50) supplementation} were recruited and overnight fasting blood samples were withdrawn at 13-16 weeks, after 3 months and 6 weeks postpartum. The serum iron, copper, zinc, magnesium and manganese were estimated by inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrophotometer. RESULTS: Serum manganese (p < 0.05) at baseline and magnesium (p < 0.01) at postpartum was significantly different between NAP and AP supplemented with daily IFA tablets. The trend of copper found to be increased during pregnancy and later declined at postpartum in both the groups. Daily supplementation resulted in significantly high iron (p < 0.05) in NAP during third trimester. CONCLUSIONS:Hypozincemia and hypomagnesemia was observed in anaemic pregnancy supplemented with weekly and daily IFA respectively. Clear evidence of altered micronutrients levels during healthy and anaemic pregnancy was seen. The reference values may be drawn from this study for the nutritional assessment during pregnancy for healthy pregnancy outcomes. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Clinical Trial Registry-India, http://ctri.nic.in, CTRI/2014/10/005135.
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Anaemia; ICP-AES; Iron folic acid supplementation; Micronutrients; Pregnancy; Trace elements
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