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The Importance of Plasma Volume Expansion and Nutrition in Twin Pregnancy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

D.M. Campbell  and
I. MacGillivray
D.M. Campbell*
Affiliation:
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
I. MacGillivray
Affiliation:
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
*
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Aberdeen. Foresterhill, Aberdeen AB9 2ZD, UK

Abstract

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Physiological adaptation including expansion in plasma volume is exaggerated in women with twin pregnancies. In singleton pregnancy and multiparous twin pregnancies there is an association between plasma volume expansion and birth weight, but this is not so in primigravid twin pregnancies. Women with twin pregnancies have a similar dietary intake to singleton pregnancies, but it is not known whether there are differences with parity or zygosity. Absorption and utilisation of nutrients may be increased to meet demands for extra fetal growth. Nutrient supply and plasma volume expansion will be further discussed and their association with birth weight presented.

Keywords

Twin pregnancyNutritionPlasma volume
Type
Research Article
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , January 1984 , pp. 19 - 24
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1984

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