Indicators of lipid peroxidation and the level of essential microelements in healthy newborn infants and in those with a history of intrauterine hypotrophy

: The authors describe the results of studying lipid peroxidation, total antioxidant activity of plasma and the content of essential trace elements (iron, copper, zinc and selenium) in 35 healthy neonates and in 32 with intrauterine hypotrophy, grades I-III, at birth and the course of the early neonatal period. It has been found that in the neonates with a history of intrauterine hypotrophy, activation of lipid peroxidation resulted in the decrease of plasma antioxidant activity and in the changes of the concentration of essential trace elements.