Table 5.

Liver intake during pregnancy and serum retinol in post‐partum mothers and newborns

	Mothers		Newborns
	n	Serum retinol* (µmol/L)	n	Serum retinol† (µmol/L)
		Mean ± SD		Mean ± SD
Liver intake
< once a week	55	1.05 ± 0.36	144	0.71 ± 0.21
Once a week or more	18	1.17 ± 0.42	36	0.85 ± 0.29‡

SD, standard deviation.

^* Mothers with CRP > 5 mg/L excluded.

^† Newborns with CRP > 5 mg/L excluded.

^‡ P = 0.018, compared with less than once a week (Mann–Whitney U‐test).