Journal of Nutritional Disorders & Therapy

Micronutrient status of pregnant women in Pakistan and its relation to perinatal complications and pregnancy outcomes

JOINT EVENT: 13^th International Congress on Advances in Natural Medicines Nutraceuticals & Neurocognition & 14^th International Conference on Clinical Nutrition

July 27-29, 2017 Rome, Italy

Sehar Iqbal

Medical University Vienna, Austria

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Nutr Disorders Ther

Abstract:

Pregnancy is not solely the utmost imperative stage for both the mother and the child, but rather for the society as well, and to phase an appropriate nutrition in terms of micronutrients holds a decisive power for avoiding any serious complications or other way around. In order to study that impact, this study will focus on Pakistan, which is one of the low income countries, and is confronting various public health challenges such as; an increase in the rate of MMR and IMR with every coming year. The present study, therefore, has been designed to address this domain in a public health perspective. It will be conducted with the obtained blood samples of 80 pregnant and 40 non-pregnant age matched women from a mono-centric hospital to compare the status of iron, iodine, zinc, selenium and manganese in both groups. Furthermore, the birth defects like neonatal mortality, low birth weight, the risk for preterm birth would also be recorded to elucidate the adverse consequences of malnutrition on perinatal complications and pregnancy outcomes.