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Abstract
We have measured zinc in the serum of pregnant and non‐pregnant women classified in two socio economic levels, high socioeconomic level pregnant and non‐pregnant women attending a private office and low socio‐economic level pregnant and nonpregnant women either attending our hospital, belonging to a social welfare or not. The samples in the pregnant women were collected in the first, second and third trimesters of pregnancy.
The socio‐economic condition was proved to be important when comparing both groups of pregnant women. Such differences had already been remarked in the non‐pregnant women group where the serum concentration was statistically greater at a higher socioeconomic condition. Also both groups had different behaviours during the pregnancy. The women having a high socio‐economic condition did not present any remarkable difference during the pregnancy whereas the low socio‐economic condition ones, showed in the third trimester, zinc levels significantly lower than in the second trimester of pregnancy.
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†Departamento de Pediatria da Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu. Sao Paulo—Brasil
†Departamento de Pediatria da Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu. Sao Paulo—Brasil
‡Departamento de Pediatria da Escola Paulista de Medicina. São Paulo— Brasil
§ Departamento de Tocoginecologia de Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu. São Paulo—Brasil
‡Departamento de Pediatria da Escola Paulista de Medicina. São Paulo— Brasil
¦Departamento de Pediatria Misericordia Botucatuense. São Paulo—Brasil
¦Departamento de Pediatria Misericordia Botucatuense. São Paulo—Brasil