[Hypoxia, lipid peroxidation, and defence antioxidant system in children born to mothers with extragenital pathology].

A study was made on the condition of lipid peroxidation and of the antioxident system of defence in 20 infants born to healthy mothers (control group), 12 babies born to mothers with diabetes mellitus, 15 infants born to mothers with neurocirculatory asthenia and 12 infants born to mothers with congenital heart diseases. In infants born to mothers with diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular pathology, the system of regulation was found to have gotten out of balance, the compensatory-and-adaptive reactions upset. Accumulation of peroxidic products and depletion of the antioxidant system of defence tended to be more readily seen in those babies born to mothers with diabetes mellitus. The results secured attest to the need for employment of drugs endowed with antioxidant activity.