The Association between Birth Weight, Leptin and Lead Levels in Material and Umbilical Cord
Keywords:
lead concentration, body weight, umbilical cord, newborns,, gestational ageAbstract
Introduction: A blood lead concentration is associated with negative impact effects on the foetus and newborns welleing.
Aim: The aim of this research was to find out how much lead was in the correlation among blood of the umbilical cord and the birth weight in newborns in Babylon, Iraq.
Materials and Methods: A three milliliter of blood was drawn from the cord's umbilical of the 120 newborn babies. Data was studied with SPS version 16.o.
Results: The levels concentration of lead in umbilical cords blood were determined to be (0.750.42 micrograms per deciliter) (0.4 – 1.45 micrograms per deciliter). The increase in blood lead levels resulted in a slight decrease of the births weight that was no significant statistically. There was a strong inverse association between the total amount of lead in the blood umbilical cord and the time of birth. Blood led had no significant correlation with other factors include age and weight, or gestational age.
Conclusions: The lead level in umbilical blood was found to be <5 μg/dl. The presence of the lead in the blood umbilical cord resulted in a decrease in the newborns' birth weight.
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