Relationships of the First Trimester Maternal BMI with New-born Anthropometric Characteristics and Visfatin Levels throughout Pregnancy
Journal Title: International Journal of Medical Research & Health Sciences (IJMRHS) - Year 2017, Vol 6, Issue 8
Abstract
Background: Birth weight has been shown to be influenced by numerous factors including, maternal characteristics such as maternal BMI. In pregnancy, there is increased adipose tissue which can cause to maternal obesity and insulin resistance. There is visfatin expression increase specifc to pregnancy. Aim: We planned this study to assess relationships of the frst trimester maternal BMI with new-born anthropometric characteristics and visfatin levels throughout pregnancy. Methods and Material: This longitudinal, observational study on 100 nulliparous pregnant women carried out in Birjand, Iran, over three trimesters in 2016. The researcher asked the participants to fll out the Researcher-made questionnaire including demographic and anthropometric characteristics including frst trimester BMI and then referred them to laboratory to serum sample taking from mothers and visfatin levels measurement in the three trimesters. Neonate’s anthropometric measures (weight, height, head circumference) and sex of new-borns were obtained from hospital reports. Results: Pearson correlation test indicated signifcant correlation between birth weight and the frst trimester maternal BMI (r= 0.27, P=0.02). Also, Spearman’s correlation test showed a weak negative correlation between head circumference with mean visfatin level (r= -0.23, P=0.04). Linear regression showed that birth weight predicts 28% of variation of BMI. Also, there was signifcant difference between the maternal level of education and the mean of birth weight (P=0.027). Conclusions: Results of the present study showed that the mean of birth weight was comparable with capital cities in Iran, it is necessary to strengthen the existing mother and child health care program and to develop new approaches.
Authors and Affiliations
Tahergorabi Zoya| Assistant Professor, Medical Toxicology and Drug Abuse Research Center (MTDRC), Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran, Jahani Farnaz| Member of Student Research Committee, School of Medicine, Brigand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran, Zarban Asghar| Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran, Khazaei Zohre| Assistant Professor, Department of Gynaecology, School of Medicine, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran, Sharifzadeh GholamReza| Assistant Professor, Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Department of public Health, School of Health, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran, Moodi Mitra| Associate Professor, Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Department of Health Education, School of Health, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran Corresponding e-mail: mitra_m2561@yahoo.com
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