Background: In developing countries like Nigeria, with poor
socio-economic, early marriage, poor acceptance of contraception, poor spacing
of pregnancies, high fertility rate and poor maternal and child health indices,
leading to poor maternal-child outcome. There is a need to
investigate the pattern of serum lipid changes during pregnancy in Nigeria
women as hyperlipidemia may lead to poor maternal outcome. Materials and
methods: A total
of one hundred and forty (140) subjects between the ages of 20 and 45 years
with mean age 29.74 ± 6.5 years of the study population. Group 1: the
control comprises of thirty-five (35) healthy non pregnant subjects with mean
age of 26.84 ± 5.2 volunteers of Nigeria origin. Group 2: the
test involved one hundred and five (105) apparently healthy pregnant Nigerian
women sub-divided into three groups; X, Y and Z each made of thirty-five (35) subjects distributed into 1
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