Relationship between maternal prenatal vitamin use and infant iron status

Subjects were fifty-six women and their infants who were between the ages of six months and twenty-four months. They were clients of Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women Infants and Children (WIC) clinics. The WIC clinics were in the West Virginia counties of Ritchie, Gilmer, Calhoun, Braxton, Mason, Jackson, Pleasants, and Greenbrier where the anemia rates were greater than 10%.;Information concerning WIC participation, prenatal vitamin use, history of breast feeding, infant birth weight, and pre-term delivery were obtained through questionnaires. Infants' serum ferritin level was obtained through venous blood and analyzed.;This ex post facto study found no significant result in mothers who took prenatal vitamins or not and the serum ferritin levels of their infants. No statistically significant relationships were found between prenatal vitamin use or non-use and participation or non-participation in WIC to the following: ever breast-fed, gestational age, birth weight, and incidences of low birth weight.

Name thesis:degree_name

MS

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Human Nutrition and Foods

Year dc:date.available

2002

Author dc:creator

• Wilkins, Jennie Pringle

Contributors dc:contributor

• Cindy Fitch.

• Nutrition

Identifier

https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/1510

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:researchrepository.wvu.edu:etd-2513