Affect of grand multiparity on HDL-C level in normal pregnant Sudanese ladies

Abstract EN

-The objective of this study is to determine maternal serum high density lipoprotein (HDL-C) levels at 26-32 weeks of gestation and the effect of multiparity on it.

Study population is normal term pregnant women age 18-42 years who delivered normally with no previous obstetric complication and all previous deliveries were spontaneous, normal term and uneventful.

Maternal serum HDL-C levels were determined from 325 normal women.

Their mean age was 30 ± 12 years.

The nulliparity (P0) was about 30.

8 per cent, the first parity –primiparity- (P1) was about 30.8 per cent, whereas, the multiparity -grand and great grand- (PG) were 38.

5 per cent.

Mean serum high density lipoprotein-cholesterol (HDL-C) levels in P0, P1 and PG were 53 ± 10, 35.

8 ± 5.

3, 67.

2 ± 11 mg / dl, respectively.

There was a significant variance between maternal lipid and nulliparity (p ≤ 0.01) as well as between primiparity and multiparity (p ≤ 0.

01).