Placental weight and its relationship with the birth weight of term infants and body mass index of the mothers.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Placental pathology is a well-known cause of perinatal and neonatal mortality and morbidity, and may correlate with placental growth, which can be assessed indirectly by anthropometric placental measurements. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to investigate mean placental weight and its relationship with birthweight and maternal body mass index (BMI).

Methods

Fresh (not formalin fixed) consecutively delivered placentae of term newborns (37-42 weeks), collected between February 2022 and August 2022, and the mothers and newborns, were included. Mean placental weight, birthweight and maternal BMI were calculated. Pearson's correlation coefficient, linear regression, and one-way analysis of variance were used to analyse continuous and categorical data.

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SUBMITTER: Sathasivam R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10192661 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature