RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Plasma total antioxidant capacity and its related factors in Iranian pregnant women.
JF Saudi Medical Journal
JO Saudi Med J
FD Prince Sultan Military Medical City
SP 1246
OP 1250
VO 32
IS 12
A1 Asemi, Zatollah
A1 Jazayeri, Shima
A1 Najafi, Mohammad
A1 Samimi, Mansoreh
A1 Tabasi, Zohreh
A1 Shidfar, Farzad
A1 Rahimi-Foroushani, Abbas
A1 Mofid, Vahid
YR 2011
UL http://smj.org.sa/content/32/12/1246.abstract
AB OBJECTIVES: To determine the plasma total antioxidant capacity (TAC) and its related factors in pregnant Iranian women attending maternity clinics.METHODS: In a cross-sectional study carried out in Naghavi Maternity Clinic, Shaheed Beheshti Specialty and Subspecialty Polyclinic and 10 antenatal centers, affiliated to Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran, we determined the plasma TAC and its related factors including maternal age, weight, and body mass index (BMI) at the beginning, thirteenth, and twenty-first to twenty-fourth weeks of pregnancy, and gestational age at the twenty-first to twenty-fourth weeks of pregnancy in 137 primigravid pregnant women, 18-30 years old from October 2010 to March 2011. We used multiple linear regression to assess the relationship between TAC and its related factors.RESULTS: Plasma TAC in the twenty-first to twenty-fourth weeks of pregnancy was 0.75±0.11 mmol/l. The BMI at the beginning was 25.06±4, 25.72±4.13 at the thirteenth, and 26.95±4.19 kg/m2 at the twenty-first to twenty-fourth weeks of pregnancy. Multiple regression analysis showed that gestational age was inversely associated with the plasma TAC (beta: -0.234, p=0.007). Regression analysis also suggested a trend toward significant association between maternal age and plasma TAC (beta: 0.150, p=0.080), but there was no association between other variables and plasma TAC.CONCLUSIONS: Gestational age was inversely correlated with plasma TAC and maternal age had a trend toward significant association with TAC in 18-30 year-old Iranian pregnant women in their sixth month of pregnancy.