Study of Cord blood Ferritin Status In Relation To Metabolic Profile among Full Term Infants of Diabetic Mothers

Abstract

or women with diabetes mellitus, pregnancy can present some particular challenges for both mother and child. If the woman has diabetes as an inter-current disease in pregnancy, it can cause different illnesses of their child. Metabolomics in maternal-fetal medicine is still an “embryonic” science. However, there is already an increasing interest in metabolome of normal and complicated pregnancies, and neonatal outcomes. Tissues used for metabolomics interrogations of pregnant women, fetuses and newborns are amniotic fluid, blood, plasma, cord blood, placenta, urine, and vaginal secretions. Iron is essential element involved in a broad range of biologically important reactions critical for cellular function and also plays a role in oxygen transferring and despite its low daily requirements iron deficiency is the most common nutritional disorder in the world. Many factors can influence the iron status of the fetus at birth, Maternal diabetes mellitus was thought to be associated with depletion of fetal iron stores in proportion to the degree of maternal control and presence or absence of complications of diabetes, but not maternal iron status In view of these data this study aimed to study metabolic profile in infants of gestational and pre- gestational dia