[The estimation of selected parameters in antioxidant system in red blood cells in ROP screening of premature infants].

Purpose: To estimate correlation between concentration of antioxidant system parameters in red blood cells in premature infants and prevalence of ROP MATERIAL AND METHODS: We examined 16 premature infants with the average birth weight of 1071 g and gestational age of 29.1 weeks. Supraoxide dismutase (SOD), reduced glutatione (GSH), and glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px), were measured at day 1 (cord blood), 7-th and 14-th day after birth.

[Blood pressure in neonates born from pregnancies complicated by diabetes].

Introduction: Diabetes is one of the most frequent metabolic disorders that may be influenced by and occur during pregnancy. Hypertension is frequently associated with a diabetes and, as well as diabetes, is considered to be one of the risk factors of the cardiovascular and the renal disease. Diabetes during a pregnancy may predispose fetus, and therefore neonate, to develop several metabolic abnormalities.