Research Article
Inflammatory Disturbances in Preeclampsia: Relationship between Maternal and Umbilical Cord Blood
Table 2
Oxidative stress parameters, cytokines, and acute-phase proteins in maternal and cord blood, in normal and PE cases.
| | Maternal | | UCB | | | Normal () | PE () | P Value | Normal () | PE () | P Value |
| Uric acid (mg/dL) | | | <0.001 | () | () | <0.001 | TAS (mmol/L) | | | 0.55 | () | () | 0.143 | TBARS (μmol/L) | 1.50 (1.29; 1.81) () | 1.87 (1.49; 2.38) () | 0.013 | 1.08 (0.95; 1.26) () | 1.10 (0.85; 1.36) () | 0.99 | TBARS/TAS | 1.48 (1.19; 1.66) () | 1.76 (1.46; 2.13) () | 0.003 | 0.93 (0.76; 1.31) () | 0.93 (0.71; 1.25) () | 0.84 | IL-6 (pg/mL) | 1.9 (1.2; 6.4) | 4.0 (2.3; 10.1) () | 0.013 | 1.8 (1.2; 2.8) | 2.2 (1.5; 5.6) | 0.066 | TNF-α (pg/mL) | 1.2 (1.0; 1.6) | 1.9 (1.3; 2.4) () | 0.001 | 1.9 (1.4; 2.4) | 1.8 (1.5; 2.1) | 0.34 | α1-Antitrypsin (mg/dL) | | | <0.001 | () | () | 0.025 | CRP (mg/L) | 3.1 (1.4; 5.8) | 4.1 (2.5; 7.9) | 0.033 | 0.03 (0.02; 0.04) () | 0.04 (0.02; 0.08) | 0.011 |
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, number of cases; PE, Preeclampsia; UCB, umbilical cord blood.
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