Prevalence of Anemia and Iron Deficiency among Palestinian Pregnant Women and Its Association with Pregnancy Outcome

Table 5

Pearson’s correlation coefficients between pregnancy outcome (newborns) and maternal iron status and anthropometric/socio-economic factors.

Maternal data↓	Newborn data
	Birth weight	Birth height	Head circumference	Gestational age	Hb
Hb	0.191	0.307	0.257	0.275	0.197
Hct	0.171	0.224	0.178	0.228	0.235
Serum ferritin	0.008	0.216	0.174	0.254	0.287
Age	0.025	0.103	0.124	0.038	0.052
BMI	0.061	0.074	0.022	-0.016	0.008
No. of Children	0.126	0.107	0.130	0.147	-0.052
No. of abortions	0.046	0.054	0.088	-0.037	0.001
Educational level	-0.023	-0.138	-0.080	-0.062	0.170
Monthly income	0.095	-0.033	-0.020	0.167	0.106

Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed). Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).