Ferritina na gravidez em gestantes com hemoglobina normal / Ferritin in pregnant women with normal hemoglobin

We studied in 49 normal pregnant women without anemia the serum levels of Hemoglobin and Ferritin, and subjected to statistical analysis. We showed that the levels of Ferritin were significantly different between the second and the seventh month, and also between the fourth and the seventh, falling in the range of iron-deficient erythropoieses (below 12 ng/ml), perhaps because of low booking Ferritin in women of low social classes. We propose Ferritin, instead of Hemoglobin, as an indicator to iron supplementation in pregnancy.