Maternal zinc status: a determination of central nervous system malformation
- 23 August 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Vol. 91 (8) , 788-790
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-0528.1984.tb04851.x
Abstract
Summary. Maternal serum zinc concentrations were estimated during 244 normal pregnancies and 15 abnormal pregnancies. The serum zinc concentrations were lower in the anencephalic pregnancies than in the normal control subjects. The serum zinc levels in women whose pregnancies terminated in a spontaneous abortion were normal. There was no variation of serum zinc level with gestational age between 15 to 18 weeks in normal pregnancies.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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