Author(s)

Nada Elamin Abdallah Badi^1*, Hassabelrasol Ata Almoula¹, Nahla Idris Abdalla Idris², Yassir Hamadalnil³, Siddig Omer M. Handady⁴

¹Omdurman Maternity Hospital, Khartoum, Sudan.
²Suliman Alhabib Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
³Faculty of Medicine, Nile University Khartoum, Sudan.
⁴Faculty of Medicine, Omdurman Ahlia University, Khartoum, Sudan.

Objective: Data showed that maternal anaemia during pregnancy negatively affects maternal/fetal outcomes. We here attempted to re-confirm this in this specific region of Sudan, with special reference to fetal/neonatal outcome. Methodology: This cross-sectional observational study was carried out at Omdurman Maternity and Khartoum North Teaching Hospitals-Sudan from March 2018 to March 2019, with 246 pregnant women presented in labour enrolled. Maternal characteristics, haemoglobin (Hb) measured after labour initiation and fetal/neonatal outcomes were analyzed. Results: When maternal anemia was defined as Hb less than 10.0 g/dL, 80 (32.5%) had anemia and 166 had not. Anemic women (Hb; 8.3 ± 0.31), compared with non-anemic women (Hb; 11.4 ± 0.61), were significantly more likely to have low birth weight (LBW) infants (40% vs. 15.7%) and still birth (12.5% vs. 4.8%). There was a correlation between hemoglobin concentration and the followings: LBW, respiratory distress syndrome, neonatal nursery admission, still birth, early neonatal death, and low Apgar score. Conclusions: Maternal aneamia negatively affected fetal/neonatal outcomes. This data may be useful to make health policy in this area.

Maternal Hemoglobin, Pregnancy, Neonatal Outcome, Birth Weight, Apgar Score, Sudanese Women

Badi, N. , Almoula, H. , Idris, N. , Hamadalnil, Y. and Handady, S. (2021) Relation Ship of Maternal Haemoglobin Concentration Measured in Labour with Neonatal Outcome among Sudanese Women. Open Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 11, 131-139. doi: 10.4236/ojog.2021.112015.