Research Article
Significance of Maternal and Cord Blood Nucleated Red Blood Cell Count in Pregnancies Complicated by Preeclampsia
Table 1
Comparative study of maternal and neonatal characteristics in preeclampsia and control groups.
| Characteristics | Preeclampsia () | Controls () | value |
| (A) Maternal profile | | | | Age in years (mean ± SD) | 26.8 ± 4.5 | 27.3 ± 3.8 | 0.537* | Systolic blood pressure—mm of Hg (mean ± SD) | 155.0 ± 9.1 | 115.9 ± 12.7 | 0.00* | Diastolic blood pressure—mm of Hg (mean ± SD) | 93.7 ± 6.1 | 72.5 ± 8.5 | 0.00* | Corrected WBC count/mm3 (mean ± SD) | 11,755 ± 4,837 | 11,709 ± 5,965 | 0.519* | Gestational age at delivery in weeks (mean ± SD) | 35.2 ± 3.1 | 38.5 ± 1.1 | 0.00* | Caesarean section (/%) | 34 (68) | 25 (50) | 0.103** | Vaginal delivery (/%) | 16 (32) | 25 (50) | Nullipara (/%) | 27 (54) | 18 (36) | 0.107** | Multipara (/%) | 23 (46) | 32 (64) | (B) Neonatal profile | | | | Corrected cord blood WBC count/mm3 (mean ± SD) | 9,875 ± 4,920 | 11,157 ± 4,406 | 0.171* | Birth weight in grams (mean ± SD) | 2171.0 ± 805.3 | 2976.1 ± 473.3 | 0.00* | Birth weight <2500 g (/%) | 29 (58) | 1 (2) | 0.00** | IUGR (/%) | 17 (34) | 0 (0) | 0.00** | APGAR at 5 min <7 (/%) | 8 (16) | 1 (2) | 0.031** | Assisted ventilation (/%) | 10 (20) | 1 (2) | 0.008** | RDS (/%) | 14 (28) | 0 (0) | 0.00** | NICU admissions (/%) | 21 (42) | 1 (2) | 0.00** | Neonatal deaths (/%) | 1 (2) | 0 (0) | 1.00** |
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*Independent -test; **Chi-square test.
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