Journal Title: بهار 89
Article title: Relationship between Maternal Hemoglobin Concentration and BMI during the First Trimester in Primiparous Women and Her Neonatal's Birth Weight

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Introduction & Objective: About 7.7% of all born neonates through at the world have low birth weight. Also 56% of pregnant women in under developed countries, 18% of pregnant women in developed countries and 80% of pregnant women in South Asia are anemic. The result of studies, which have been already done, about the relationship between mother's hemoglobin concentration and birth weight of her neonate are contravertial and also in reference books of obstetrics and genycology nothing is specifically mentioned about this issue. Our aim in this study is to evaluate the relationship between mother's hemoglobin concentration and BMI in the first trimester of pregnancy and birth weight of her neonate. Materials & Methods: This was a cross sectional study in which the files of 555 nulipar women, which related during August 2004 - August 2007 to 5 health center in Rasht city, during August 2004-August 2007, were selected randomly and referred to the data needed for this study, such as age, height, weight, mother's hemoglobin and birth weight of her neonate were collected. Other confounding factor such as prematurity, genetic disorders, placental insufficiency, chronic disease and administration of some special drugs were eliminated. The data were analyzed by pearson and linear regression Analysis. Results: There was not significant relationship between mother's hemoglobin concentration during the first terimestr of pregnancy and her neonate's birth weight. Also the relationship between mother's hemoglobin concentration and her neonate's birth weight with interfering factor of age, was not significant, but the relationship with the interfering factor of BMI, in BMI higher than 30 kg/m2 was found to be significant (P=0.041). The ratio of LBW in our study was 4% and the ratio of macrosomy was 5%. Also ratio of anemic pregnant women in our study was 21.3%. Conclusions: According to our study there is no significant relationship between mother's hemoglobin concentration during the first terimestr of pregnancy and her neonate's birth weight. The ratio of LBW in our study was lower than world-wide average. Also the ratio of anemic pregnant women in our study was lower than under developed countries and a little higher than developed countries.
Article KeyWords:
Maternal Hemoglobin, Low Birth Weight, Pregnancy
Article Authors:

	دکتر رویا فرجی	First Author	royafaraji1371@yahoo.com
	دکتر فریبا میربلوک	Other Author
	دکتر سیده هاجر شارمی	Other Author
	دکتر مریم اصغرنیا	Other Author
	دکتر محمدعلی جوافشانی	Other Author
	دکتر مجید غلامزاده	Other Author