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Diagnosis of pregnancyOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
Pregnancy is associated with physiologic changes that
result in increased plasma volume and red blood cells. these
physiologic changes can be aggravated by under nutrition,
leading to micronutrient deficiency states, such as anemia, that
can have disastrous consequences for both mothers and newborn
infants. (American Society for Clinical Nutrition, 2000). Many
of the 200 million women who become pregnant each year,
most of them in developing countries, suffer from both ongoing
nutrition deficiencies and the long term cumulative
consequences of under nutrition during childhood .
Poor health and nutrition with repeated, pregnancies
progressively reduce women’s nutritional reserves to the point of
nutritional depletion known as the maternal depletion syndrome.
(Penelope, 2000).