Is there a relationship between cord blood pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A and birth weight and length?

Abstract:

BACKGROUND:Infants whose mothers had low serum pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A (PAPP-A) in the first trimester were observed to have intrauterine growth retardation. AIM:Suggesting that PAPP-A plays an important role in the availability and activity of insulin-like growth factors (IGFs), which affect growth, we aimed to investigate cord blood PAPP-A levels of infants with different birth lengths and weights. STUDY DESIGN AND OUTCOME MEASURES: The study included 97 full-term, live-birth neonates. After birth, their lengths and weights were measured. Cord blood PAPP-A levels were measured with an ultra sensitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). RESULTS:There was a significant negative correlation between cord blood PAPP-A levels and birth weight (r=-0.23; P=0.023) and length (r=-0.24; P=0.016). Using the classification made according to their length, it was found that newborns with short lengths had significantly higher mean PAPP-A levels than neonates with normal and long lengths (P=0.022; P=0.002, respectively), whereas the difference between infants with normal lengths and infants with long lengths was not found to be statistically significant (P>0.05). On the other hand, there was a difference between the mean PAPP-A levels of the neonate groups classified according to weight; however, these differences were not statistically significant (P>0.05). CONCLUSION:We concluded that increased cord blood PAPP-A levels were associated with birth length and weight decreases; however, PAPP-A levels affected birth length more than birth weight.

journal_name

Early Hum Dev

journal_title

Early human development

authors

Senses DA,Coskun A,Kiseli M,Berberoglu M,Kandemir O,Yalvac S,Duran S

doi

10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2006.10.005

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2007-07-01 00:00:00

pages

479-82

issue

7

eissn

0378-3782

issn

1872-6232

pii

S0378-3782(06)00299-4

journal_volume

83

pub_type

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