Table 2.

Maternal dietary intakes and full blood count results during pregnancy in ROLO mothers

	Trimester 1			Trimester 2			Trimester 3
	N (%)	Mean	SD	N (%)	Mean	SD	N (%)	Mean	SD
Dietary intakes
Dietary iron (mg)a	548	10.71	4.27	554	10.66	4.18	549	10.89	4.36
Deficient dietary iron intake (< 14.8 mg/day)	471 (85.9)	–	–	475 (85.7)	–	–	469 (85.4)	–	–
Sufficient dietary iron intake (≥ 14.8 mg/day)	77 (14.1)	–	–	79 (14.3)	–	–	80 (14.6)	–	–
Dietary Vitamin B12 (µg)a	548	3.84	2.49	554	4.10	2.58	549	4.21	2.53
Deficient dietary vitamin B12 (< 1.5 mcg/day)	29 (5.3)	–	–	19 (3.4)	–	–	16 (2.9)	–	–
Sufficient dietary vitamin B12 (≥ 1.5 mcg/day)	519 (94.7)	–	–	535 (70.5)	–	–	533 (97.1)	–	–
Dietary folate (µg)a	548	253.1	125.9	554	264.5	113.8	549	258.5	120
Deficient dietary folate (< 400 mcg/day)	499 (91.1)	–	–	508 (91.7)	–	–	492 (89.6)	–	–
Sufficient dietary folate (≥ 400 mcg/day)	49 (8.9)	–	–	46 (8.3)	–	–	57 (10.4)	–	–

	Early pregnancy (13 weeks)			Late pregnancy (28 weeks)
	N (%)	Mean	SD	N (%)	Mean	SD
Full blood count results
HgB (g/dL)	756	12.9	0.9	713	11.6	0.9
Anemia in early pregnancy (HgB < 11 g/dL) and late pregnancy (HgB < 10.5 g/dL)	13 (1.7)	–	–	78 (10.9)	–	–
Without anemia in early pregnancy (HgB ≥ 11 g/dL) and late pregnancy (HgB ≥ 10.5 g/dL)	743 (98.3)	–	–	635 (89.1)	–	–
HCT (%)	756	0.37	0.02	713	0.34	0.02
MCV (fL)a	756	86	4.6	713	88.1	5.3
MCH (pg)a	756	30	1.8	713	30.1	2.3
MCHC (g/dL)	756	34.73	0.95	713	34.07	0.95

HgB haemoglobin, HCT haematocrit, MCV mean cell volume, MCH mean corpuscular haemoglobin, MCHC mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration

^aData displayed as Median (IQR)