Oye Oluwaseun Mercy
Department of Chemical Pathology, Ambrose Alli University, NigeriaPublications
-
Research
ASSESSMENT OF THE VITAMIN A, C AND E LEVELS OF PREGNANT WOMEN ATTENDING ANTENATAL CLINIC IN EDO STATE CENTRAL SENATORIAL DISTRICT, EDO STATE, NIGERIA
Author(s): Oye Oluwaseun Mercy*, Dada Folorunso Lawrence and Ohiwerei Wisdom Omogbai
Pregnancy, also known as gestation, is the time during which one or more offspring develops inside a woman. The aim of the study is to evaluate the Vitamin C, A and E levels of pregnant women attending antenatal clinic in Edo State Central Senatorial District, Edo State, Nigeria. A total of one hundred (100) subjects was recruited for this study which will consists of fifty (50) pregnant women and fifty (50) non pregnant as control in Ekpoma. Subject’s data such as name, age and gender was obtained and the age range for this was 18 to above. Blood was collected and put into Lithium Heparin tubes each for the three respective laboratories and vitamin C, A and E were analyzed spectrometric ally using standard laboratory methods. The result reveals that the mean and S.D of the subject group of Vitamin E (mg/100ml) for non-pregnant women (control) was 1.37±0.49, while the mea.. Read More»