Serum ferritin levels and their significance in normal full-term pregnant women |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Radiology, University of Washington, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Box 357115, RR210, Seattle, WA 98195-7115, USA;2. Department of Radiology, University of California, 505 Parnassus Avenue, Suite M-372, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA;3. Palo Alto Medical Foundation, 701 East El Camino Real, Mountain View, CA 94040, USA;4. Department of Radiology, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, Box 0946, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA;5. Department of Surgery, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, Box 0946, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA;6. Department of Urology, 400 Parnassus Avenue, Suite A-610, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA;1. Medical Physics Laboratory, Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Via Elio Chianesi 53, 00144 Rome, Italy;2. Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging Department, Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Via Elio Chianesi 53, 00144 Rome, Italy;3. Department of Radiotherapy, Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Via Elio Chianesi 53, 00144 Rome, Italy;4. Department of Pathology, Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Via Elio Chianesi 53, 00144 Rome, Italy;5. Department of Otolaryngology & Head and Neck Surgery, Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Via Elio Chianesi 53, 00144 Rome, Italy |
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| Abstract: | Serum ferritin levels were determined by radioimmunoassay (RIA) method and then analysed in 240 normal full-term pregnant women. Their hemoglobin concentrations were found to be normal in the first trimester. None of them had received any hematonic during their whole pregnancy period. Their mean age was 27.7 years and the mean pregnancy duration was 39.5 weeks. Mean hemoglobin concentration in these normal pregnant women was 12.6 g%. Mean serum ferritin was 23.1 ng/ml. It was significantly lower than the mean value of the normal non-pregnant women of the same age. In this study, we found that even normal pregnant women, 15.42% (37 out of the 240) had subclinical iron deficiency and 12.92% (31 out of the 240) of the previously normal pregnant women had clinical anemia during their term of pregnancy. Multiparity was found to be a factor in the prevalence of iron deficiency but age and gravida number played no role in the occurrence of iron deficiency anemia. |
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