Preeclampsia Is Associated with Increased Central Aortic Pressure, Elastic Arteries Stiffness and Wave Reflections, and Resting and Recruitable Endothelial Dysfunction
Table 1
Demographic and laboratory samples characteristics of the study populations according to pregnancy status.
Healthy pregnant (HP)
Gestational hypertension (GH)
Preeclampsia (PE)
value
MV ± SD
MV ± SD
MV ± SD
10
8
8
Age (years)
29.4 ± 6.2
30.9 ± 6.7
33.6 ± 5.9
0.373
Gestational age (weeks)
34.6 ± 3.7
34.9 ± 2.9
36.3 ± 2.2
0.502
Number of gestations ()
1.8 ± 2.1
4.5 ± 3.8
3.5 ± 4.5
0.286
Weight (kg)
67.1 ± 7.3
76.5 ± 10.9
97.0 ± 12.6a,b
<0.001
Height (cm)
157.6 ± 6.8
159.6 ± 5.3
160.3 ± 8.6
0.703
BMI (kg/m2)
27.1 ± 3.6
30.2 ± 5.4
38.1 ± 6.6a,b
0.001
Creatinine (mg/dL)
0.7 ± 0.1
0.6 ± 0.1
0.6 ± 0.1
0.664
Uric acid (mg/dL)
3.2 ± 1.1
4.1 ± 1.4
6.7 ± 2.5a,b
0.001
24-hour proteinuria (g)
0.0 ± 0.1
0.2 ± 0.1a
0.5 ± 0.1a,b
<0.001
SGOT (UI/L)
12.2 ± 3.2
15.7 ± 5.9
14.5 ± 2.5
0.722
SGPT (UI/L)
11.5 ± 5.2
13.7 ± 6.0
11.8 ± 4.1
0.587
LDH (UI/L)
320.5 ± 59.7
347.8 ± 49.8
386.9 ± 93.3
0.846
Hematocrit (%)
31.7 ± 3.7
34.2 ± 2.9
33.7 ± 2.0
0.681
Platelets (L−1)
213.0 ± 78.0
195.4 ± 60.0
202.6 ± 45.6
0.862
Values are expressed as mean value (MV) ± standard deviation (SD). Post hoc test with multiple comparisons: a and b indicate with respect to HP and GH, respectively. All comparisons were determined using ANOVA + Bonferroni test. HP: healthy pregnancies; GH: gestational hypertension; PE: preeclamptic pregnancies; BMI: body mass index; SGOT: serum glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase; SGPT: serum glutamic-pyruvic transaminase; LDH: lactate dehydrogenase. Between groups.
