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. 2001 Jun;68(6):523-6.
doi: 10.1007/BF02723246.

Serum zinc and copper levels in the maternal blood and cord blood of neonates

A S Iqbal  1 , M Shahidullah, M N Islam, S Akhter, S Banu
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Serum zinc and copper levels in the maternal blood and cord blood of neonates

A S Iqbal et al. Indian J Pediatr. 2001 Jun.

Abstract

Estimation of serum zinc and copper in the maternal blood and cord blood of neonates was carried out to correlate the trace metals in the neonates and their mothers in relation to gestational age and birth weight. Sixty-five healthy neonates, both term and preterm and their mothers were selected. This cross sectional study was done at Azimpur Maternity Centre, Dhaka Medical College Hospital and Chemistry Division, Atomic Energy Centre, Dhaka, Bangladesh from July 1997 to June 1998. The estimation of trace metals was carried out by Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry (AAS). The mean serum zinc levels in the maternal blood and cord blood were 0.47 +/- 0.24 microgram/ml and 0.85 +/- 0.33 microgram/ml respectively and the mean copper levels in the maternal blood and cord blood were 1.37 +/- 0.62 micrograms/ml and 0.31 +/- 0.32 microgram/ml respectively. Cord blood zinc level was significantly higher and cord blood copper level was significantly lower than the corresponding maternal blood levels. There was no significant correlation between gestational age and serum zinc levels in the cord or maternal blood. But significant inverse correlation was found between gestational age and serum levels of copper in the maternal and cord blood.

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