MMSL 2022, 91(4):305-310 | DOI: 10.31482/mmsl.2022.006

COMPARATIVE STUDY OF IRON STATUS IN APPARENTLY HEALTHY PREGNANT WOMEN WITH NON PREGNANT WOMENOriginal article

Ahmed H. AL-Hamdani ORCID...
Department of pharmacology and toxicology, College of Pharmacy, University of Mosul, Mosul, Iraq

Iron status in this clinical trial was represented as "Serum  Iron, Total  iron˗  binding capacity (TIBC), Unsaturated iron˗ binding capacity  (UIBC), Transferrin saturation, Packed cell volume (PCV), Hemoglobin (Hb)", were evaluated in the blood of  98 healthy participant women, including 35 healthy non-pregnant women aged between (18-45) years as a control group and 63 healthy pregnant women aged between (15-44) years which divided into two groups depending on gestational age, the first group in the first trimester aged between (15-38) years; the second group in the third trimester aged between (21-44) years; in order to investigate the impacts of pregnancy and gestational period on iron status. The dedication of the contemporary research was to conclude the physiological changes in iron conditions in pregnant women in relation with non-pregnant women. Regarding this results that are recorded in the current research, a great significant drop in the level of the serum iron, transferrin saturation, PCV, Hb in "the first and third trimester" of pregnant women when comparison done with the control cases, while a statistical significance elevation of TIBC and UIBC level in the first and third trimester of pregnancy compared with control groups. Finally, the results of the mean value of iron status showed a meaningful difference between the first and third trimesters of pregnancy.

Keywords: pregnancy; iron; haemoglobin; RBC; PCV

Received: December 18, 2021; Revised: January 25, 2022; Accepted: January 26, 2022; Prepublished online: February 16, 2022; Published: December 2, 2022  Show citation

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AL-Hamdani, A.H. (2022). COMPARATIVE STUDY OF IRON STATUS IN APPARENTLY HEALTHY PREGNANT WOMEN WITH NON PREGNANT WOMEN. MMSL, 91(4), 305-310. doi: 10.31482/mmsl.2022.006
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