Table 1.
Biochemical and clinical parameters of the 14 newborns and their mothers, who underwent paediatric evaluation and further laboratory testing.
| No | Sex | C3 (μmol/L) (abnormal value < 4.31; 99th percentile) | C3/2 (abnormal value < 0.18)a |
C3/C16 (abnormal value < 1.8)a |
Methionine (μmol/L) (reference intervals: 4.23–44.30; 1st to 99th percentile) | Vitamin B12 (pmol/L) (reference intervals: 216–891) | Folate (nmol/L) (reference intervals: 7.0–46.5) | Hcy (μM) (abnormal value: > 10) | MMA (Mmol/mol Cr) in urine (abnormal value: > 10) | MMA (μmol/L) in serum (abnormal value: > 0.3) | Exclusively breast-fed |
Mother’ s vitamin B12 (pmol/L) (reference intervals: 141–489) | Mother's prenatal folic acid supplemen-taton ≥ 400 μg/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | M | 4.8 | 0.19 | 1.23 | 8.52 | 162 | 27.7 | 15.7 | 8.75 | b | yes | 251 | yes |
| 2. | M | 5.27 | 0.3 | 2.17 | 9.01 | 176 | 38.1 | 6 | not detected | b | yes | 316 | yes |
| 3. | M | 5.88 | 0.23 | 1.8 | 11.89 | 184 | 32 | 10.3 | 1.5 | b | yes | Normal (autoimmune disease) | yes |
| 4. | F | 5.91 | 0.23 | 2.46 | 14.93 | 110 | 36.9 | 12.2 | 7.36 | b | yes | Normal | yes |
| 5. | F | 5.96 | 0.08 | 0.47 | 9.09 | 143 | 31.2 | 22.9 | 62.08 | 6.71 | yes | 174 | yes |
| 6. | M | 7.07 | 0.18 | 2.67 | 6.44 | 103 | 38.5 | 14.1 | 132 | 4.92 | yes | Normal | yes |
| 7. | M | 7.27 | 0.3 | 2.43 | 6.27 | 60 | 59,9 | 23.6 | 24.07 | 4.0 | yes | Low (vegetarian) | n.a. |
| 8. | M | 7.35 | 0.17 | 2.19 | 13 | 201 | b | b | 4.97 | b | yes | 168 | yes |
| 9. | M | 7.94 | 0.14 | 1.42 | 20.21 | 184 | 67.2 | 8 | 2.51 | 17.02 | yes | 404 | yes |
| 10. | M | 8.08 | 0.45 | 2.21 | 21.27 | 135 | 43 | 14 | not detected | b | yes | Normal | yes |
| 11. | M | 8.45 | 0.21 | 2.52 | 8.4 | 187 | b | b | 7.7 | 3.19 | yes | Normal | yes |
| 12. | M | 8.94 | 0.18 | 2.46 | 10.6 | 188 | 79 | 10.3 | 4.6 | 14.74 | yes | 246 | yes |
| 13. | M | 9.91 | 0.17 | 1.52 | 10.7 | 208 | 35.6 | 11.3 | 9.01 | 2.41 | yes | 347 | yes |
| 14. | M | 12.16 | 0.16 | 1.58 | 18.99 | 168 | 30.4 | 6.3 | 1.31 | 14.9 | yes | 230 | yes |
Biochemical and clinical parameters of the 14 newborns and their mothers, who underwent paediatric evaluation and further laboratory testing.
Scolamiero et al.
Not measured.