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Early neonatal antioxidant capacity after preexisting impaired placental function
Lia D E Wijnberger1, Tannette G Krediet, Gerard H A Visser
1Department of Obstetrics, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital Utrecht, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Early Human Development
|March 29, 2003
Abstract:
Plasma antioxidant capacity in very preterm infants (n=17), measured as the ferric-reducing ability of plasma (FRAP), increased significantly until day 2 postpartum and decreased thereafter until day 7. Within this period, the FRAP values in matched infants, born after impaired placental function (IPF, n=17), did not change. Their FRAP values were lower and the incidence of oxidative stress-related diseases was significantly higher in these infants.