Table 1.
Characteristic of study population.
Fig 1.
Dynamics of cortisol levels measured in pregnant women during pregnancy determined at different ANC visits.
Legend: NS: not significant; V: visit. Code: *: <0.05; **: <0.01; ***: <0.001; ****: <0.0001. In each case, 30μl of plasma was used to determine for cortisol level in blood (ng/ml). Cortisol levels were compared between multigravidae and primigravidae at each scheduled visits and presented as box and whisker plots illustration: top, bottom and middle of box, representing 25th, 75th and 50th percentiles, respectively. In both group, cortisol concentration increased in a sawtooth pattern during pregnancy with peaks at V2(28th±1 week) and V4 32th ±1 week), before decreasing at V5 which is part of post-partum.
Table 2.
Cortisol and prolactin concentration in peripheral blood and umbilical cord blood at delivery.
Table 3.
Stratification of cortisol and prolactin concentration by gravidity in peripheral blood and umbilical blood at delivery.
Fig 2.
Dynamic of prolactin in pregnant women during pregnancy.
Legend: NS: not significant; V: visit. Code: *: <0.05; **: <0.01; ***: <0.001; ****: <0.0001. 30μl of plasma was used to determine the concentration of prolactin in blood (ng/ml). Prolactin levels were compared between multigravidae and primigravidae at each scheduled visits as described in “Method” section and presented as box and whisker plots illustration: top, bottom and middle of box, representing 25th, 75th and 50th percentiles, respectively. In multigravidae, the prolactin concentration increase from V1 (enrolment) to V4 (delivery) before decreasing at V5. For primigravidae, this concentration increase from V1 to V3 before decreasing at V4 and V5.
Table 4.
Cortisol and prolactin concentration in non-pregnant women.
Table 5.
Interplay or correlation of prolactin on cortisol during pregnancy.
Table 6.
Interplay or correlation of cortisol on prolactin during pregnancy.
Table 7.
Malaria infection by gestation and gestational age.