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Indian Journal of Anatomy

Volume  13, Issue 3, July - Sept. 2024, Pages 105-108
 

Original Article

Effect of Diabetes & Malnutrition During Pregnancy and its Effect on Placenta & Fetus

Ritu Bala Soni

Associate Professor,  Department of Anatomy, Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal 462001, Madhya Pradesh, India.
 

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21088/ija.2320.0022.13324.3

Abstract


Diabetes and malnutrition is very common in population. Further its chances increases  during pregnancy. When pregnant women suffer by these condition,their fetus also affected.  Diabetes and malnutrition affects women’s body so placenta which is formed during pregnancy  affect and consequently morphological structure and function of placenta (transfer of nutrition  and gaseous exchange) affect. Maternal blood circulation also affected, hyperglycemia occurs   in diabetes and hypoprotenimia in malnutrition. So fetus suffer and consequently newborn  baby born with some minor (macrosomia in diabetes and low birth weight in malnutrition) or  major (diabetes and protein-energy malnutrition syndrome respectively) pathology.
 


Keywords : Fetus; Diabetes malnutrition; Placenta.
Corresponding Author : Ritu Bala Soni,