Maternal protein depletion and small-for-gestational-age babies.
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- 1 February 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 50 (2), 146-148
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.50.2.146
Abstract
It has been established that there is a high incidence of small-for-gestational-age babies among underprivileged urban Africans. This community suffers from endemic malnutrition. Serum albumin studies on mothers of low birthweight babies showed a direct correlation with size of babies for gestational age. Thus maternal protein depletion, and probably therefore malnutrition, was associated with the high incidence of small-for-age-gestational babies.Keywords
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