Inadequate iron stores in early term neonates.
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SUBMITTER: Hua Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6136963 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
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Inadequate iron stores in early term neonates.
Hua Ying Y Kaciroti Niko N Jiang Yaping Y Li Xing X Xu Guobin G Richards Blair B Li Ming M Lozoff Betsy B
Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association 20180608 8
<h4>Objective</h4>To characterize neonatal iron stores depending on gestational age (GA) at term.<h4>Study design</h4>Participants were 751 mother-newborn pairs from the placebo arm of a randomized clinical trial of prenatal iron-folate supplementation in China. We compared mean cord serum ferritin (SF) by weeks GA and, following the general linear model, assessed whether maternal iron deficiency (ID) influenced relations between GA and cord SF.<h4>Results</h4>Controlling for covariates, cord SF ...[more]
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