Validation of Serum Biomarkers Derived from Proteomic Analysis for the Early Screening of Preeclampsia

Figure 1

Box-plot of maternal prepregnancy BMI (a), Cystatin-C (b), VCAM-1 (c), and Pappalysin-A (d) in 24 pregnant women that subsequently developed PE and 48 uncomplicated pregnancies. The box represents the lower and upper quartiles, the medians are indicated by a line inside each box; the whiskers represent the 10th and 90th percentiles. Outliers, depicted as asterisks, are values more than 1.5 box lengths from either ridge of the box.

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)