What is it about?
Maternal circulating cholesterol levels are known to relate to changes in umbilical cord vein functions (Leiva et al., 2013). The umbilical cord vein returns oxygenated blood to foetal heart while cord arteries return deoxygenated blood to the placenta. This practically implies that all essential nutrient substrates from the mother across the placenta are conveyed to the foetus by the umbilical cord vein
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Why is it important?
During pregnancy, the perinatal triad of mother, placenta, and foetus becomes functionally complete with a functional umbilical cord which offers a smooth passage of blood from the placenta to the foetus or foetus to the placenta
Perspectives
This publication seeks to offer an easy to use, cost-effective, and non-invasive approach to contribute to antenatal care service policies in developing countries to assess early detection of pregnancies at risk of adverse perinatal outcomes
Dr. SAMUEL BIMPONG
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
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This page is a summary of: Maternal first antenatal care visit biometric indices as potential predictors of umbilical cord morphometric parameters, Journal of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, January 2022, IOS Press,
DOI: 10.3233/npm-210734.
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