{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,30]],"date-time":"2026-06-30T11:03:08Z","timestamp":1782817388088,"version":"3.54.5"},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences","issue":"7","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["Pak J Med Sci"],"abstract":"<jats:p>Objectives: To determine relationship between immediate postpartum umbilical cord pH, fetal distress and neonatal outcome\r\nMethods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in the department of Gynaecology, Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar, Pakistan, from January 2019 to July 2019. This study included 27 full-term pregnant women who had abnormal CTG during the active or latent phase of labour. Data were analyzed by IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 23.0.\r\nResults: Out of 27, most patients 13 (48.14%) were in the age group 20-25 years,11 (40.74%) to 26-30 years and 3 (11.11%) belonged to 31-35 years of age group. CTG abnormalities were severe bradycardia, late deccelerations and persistent variable deccelerations with loss of baseline variability. Of all delivered babies, 21 (77%) babies had birth weight&lt;3.5 kg and 6 (22%) had &gt;3.5 kg birth weight. 20 (74.07%) had acidosis (pH &lt;7.2) at the time of birth, of which one had severe hypoxemia and acidosis with pH 6.85. APGAR score at 0 minutes showed a strong positive correlation (r=0.818, p= &lt;0.001) with cord pH, while APGAR at five minutes was also strongly correlated (r= 773, p=&lt;0.001). Of all babies 18(66.66%) with PH less than 7.2 were admitted in NICU while only 2 babies with PH more than 7.2 were admitted. (p value= 0.005).\r\nConclusion: Low umbilical cord pH values of babies born by cesarean section (for fetal distress) are strongly correlated with low APGAR score at birth and higher rates of NICU admission.\r\ndoi: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.12669\/pjms.36.7.2536\r\nHow to cite this:Syed W, Liaqat N, Qazi Q, Yasmeen S. Relationship between immediate postpartum umbilical cord\u00a0pH, fetal distress and neonatal outcome. Pak J Med Sci. 2020;36(7):1529-1532. doi: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.12669\/pjms.36.7.2536\r\nThis is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.12669\/pjms.36.7.2536","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,14]],"date-time":"2020-10-14T04:52:20Z","timestamp":1602651140000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Relationship between immediate postpartum umbilical cord\u00a0pH, fetal distress and neonatal outcome"],"prefix":"10.12669","volume":"36","author":[{"given":"Wajeeha","family":"Syed","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Nazia","family":"Liaqat","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Qudsia","family":"Qazi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sumaira","family":"Yasmin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"4935","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,17]]},"container-title":["Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences"],"original-title":[],"link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/pjms.org.pk\/index.php\/pjms\/article\/download\/2536\/731","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/pjms.org.pk\/index.php\/pjms\/article\/download\/2536\/731","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,9]],"date-time":"2026-05-09T06:28:42Z","timestamp":1778308122000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/pjms.org.pk\/index.php\/pjms\/article\/view\/2536"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,17]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"7","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,9,23]]}},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.12669\/pjms.36.7.2536","relation":{},"ISSN":["1681-715X","1682-024X"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1681-715X","type":"electronic"},{"value":"1682-024X","type":"print"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,17]]}}}