Fig. 1. Birth weight-adjusted concentration of calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg) in the meconium of infants of various GA. The dispersion brackets correspond to ±SEM. *p<0.05; **p<0.01; ***p<0.001; ****p<0.0001 against the values of the 38 to 42 week group. The number of samples per group is the same as that of Table 2.
Fig. 2. Birth weight-adjusted concentration of copper (Cu), iron (Fe), zinc (Zn), phosphorus (P) and manganese (Mn) in the meconium of newborn infants. The remaining information is the same as that of Fig. 1.