Journalartikel

Autorenliste: MORA, JO; CLEMENT, J; CHRISTIANSEN, N; SUESCUN, J; WAGNER, M; HERRERA, MG

Jahr der Veröffentlichung: 1978

Seiten: 167-175

Zeitschrift: Nutrition reports international

Bandnummer: 18

Heftnummer: 2

ISSN: 0029-6635

Verlag: Butterworth

Abstract: 
As part of a longitudinal study of malnutrition and intellectual development, a randomized trial of the effects of nutritional supplementation (856 calories and 38.4 g of protein) during the last trimester of pregnancy was conducted. Poor families (456) with malnourished children were enrolled in a uniform health care program consisting of free medical care for the mothers during pregnancy and for all children under 7 yr of age. Nutritional supplements were provided to 226 families while 230 families were not supplemented. No effects of supplementation were noted on the length of gestation. Stillbirth, neonatal and perinatal mortality rates were all lower in the supplemented group. Stillbirth rate was approximately 1/4; the neonatal and perinatal mortality rates were about 1/2 the rate noted in the control group. The sample was too small to test for significance of the differences observed in specific death rates, but when stillbirths and neonatal deaths were pooled, significant differences between the 2 groups were found by the chi-squared test (P < 0.05). These data suggest that supplementation begun during the last trimester of pregnancy in a sample of families at risk of malnutrition resulted in a substantial reduction of perinatal and neonatal mortality in addition to the previously reported effects of supplementation on maternal weight gain during the last trimester of pregnancy and on birth weight.

Harvard-Zitierstil: MORA, J., CLEMENT, J., CHRISTIANSEN, N., SUESCUN, J., WAGNER, M. and HERRERA, M. (1978) NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTATION AND OUTCOME OF PREGNANCY .3. PERINATAL AND NEONATAL-MORTALITY, NUTRITION REPORTS INTERNATIONAL, 18(2), pp. 167-175

APA-Zitierstil: MORA, J., CLEMENT, J., CHRISTIANSEN, N., SUESCUN, J., WAGNER, M., & HERRERA, M. (1978). NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTATION AND OUTCOME OF PREGNANCY .3. PERINATAL AND NEONATAL-MORTALITY. NUTRITION REPORTS INTERNATIONAL. 18(2), 167-175.