Table 1.

Maternal and fetal arterial biochemistry at the end of the study

	Control	Anemic
Blood pH	7.44 ± 0.01	7.43 ± 0.01
Blood $P{a}_{CO}{}_{{}_2}$, mmHg	35.2 ± 1.1	37.7 ± 1.3
Blood $\mathrm{P}{\mathrm{a}}_{\mathrm{O}}{}_{{}_{\mathrm{2}}}$, mmHg	92.9 ± 1.5	89.0 ± 1.4
Blood So2, %	95.7 ± 0.7	95.8 ± 0.6
Blood O2 content, mmol/l	5.75 ± 0.20	5.71 ± 0.17
Blood hematocrit, %	31.0 ± 1.1	30.8 ± 0.9
Plasma glucose, mmol/l	3.88 ± 0.19	4.00 ± 0.14
Plasma lactate, mmol/l‡	0.85 ± 0.05	0.87 ± 0.08
Blood pH	7.35 ± 0.00	7.34 ± 0.00
Blood $P{a}_{CO}{}_{{}_2}$, mmHg	51.2 ± 0.6	53.2 ± 0.6*
Plasma glucose, mmol/l	1.03 ± 0.05	1.25 ± 0.06†
Plasma lactate, mmol/l	2.16 ± 0.13	2.37 ± 0.13
Plasma insulin, ng/ml	0.31 ± 0.03	0.33 ± 0.03
Plasma protein, µg/ml	44.0 ± 5.1	42.5 ± 3.7
Plasma IGF-1, ng/ml	119.6 ± 8.4	88.4 ± 5.6†
Plasma glucagon, pg/ml‡	39.3 ± 4.7	64.6 ± 7.9*
Plasma cortisol, ng/ml	9.7 ± 1.5	16.6 ± 2.4*
Plasma norepinephrine, pg/ml	554.9 ± 100.7	952.7 ± 95.3*

Values are expressed as means ± SE; n = 15 for control and n = 19 for anemic. IGF, insulin-like growth factor.

^*P < 0.05, by Student's t-test or the Mann-Whitney U-test.

^†P < 0.001, by Student's t-test.

^‡Mann-Whitney U-test was performed.