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SERUM COPPER IN NORMAL PREGNANCY IN NIGERIANS
Author(s) -
Osclatunbosun D. A.,
Adadevoh B. K.,
Adeniyi F. A.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1974.tb00500.x
Subject(s) - nigerians , copper , pregnancy , medicine , obstetrics , endocrinology , chemistry , biology , organic chemistry , political science , law , genetics
Summary Serum copper concentrations were determined by atomic absorption spectroscopy in 288 Nigerian women comprising 212 pregnant women, 44 non‐pregnant controls and 32 postpartum women. There was a small progressive increase in serum copper during the first two trimesters to values at the upper limits of those of the nonpregnant controls. Significant increases occurred during the last trimester and persisted until the fourteenth postpartum day when the serum copper had declined to the levels observed in the control group. Both the absolute increase in serum copper and the proportion of women with increases outside the normal range were smaller than those previously reported in non‐Nigerians.