[Estimation of iron status in women in the course of gestation and delivery]

The triple examinations have taken in the course of gestation on 86 pregnant women living in Lódź. The determinations of HGB, HCT, RBC, MCV, MCH, MCHC, RDW, SF, TIBC, SI, TS, ST, and EP in the venous blood were made between 8-14 hbt, 22-24 hbt, 32-35 hbt and at the first phase of the delivery. Among the examined women it was state the decrease of the value of hematological and iron indexes during the testified to the depletion of the reserved, transport and functional iron store in the organism of the pregnant women. The multiple criteria models were applied to diagnose the prevalence of different stages of iron deficiency with or without anemia in our pregnant women. For women in all trimesters of pregnancy the prevalence of iron deficiency and iron deficiency anemia was 38% in first and 54% in second half of pregnancy.