Journal of Nutritional Disorders & Therapy

Tembhare A

Publications

• Research Article
  Lipids in Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy and Birth Weight
  Author(s): Shakuntala Chhabra, Tembhare A and Agrawal VShakuntala Chhabra, Tembhare A and Agrawal V
  
  Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy affect growth of fetus, birth weight too. However all babies are not small. This might have something to do with lipids. Objective: Present study was to study serum lipid levels in normal pregnant, women with HDsP, specially lipid abnormalities in HDsP and birth weight of baby. Materials and methods: Prospective study was carried out with singleton pregnancy, gestational age more than 20 weeks with HDsP. Normotensive pregnant women, matched for age, (+2) parity (+1), gestational age (+2 weeks) were controls. Fasting serum lipids, cholesterol, triglycerides, high density lipoproteins (HDL), low density lipoproteins (LDL), very low density lipoproteins (VLDL) were estimated at entry, repeated 7 days. Criterion for small for gestation weight was less than 2500 gms birth weight of >3.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2161-0509.1000218

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