Research Article
Can Preterm Labour Be Predicted in Low Risk Pregnancies? Role of Clinical, Sonographic, and Biochemical Markers
Table 2
Various predictive markers in both the groups.
| | Preterm | Term | value | | () | () |
| | Nugent’s score ≥8 | 15 | 13 | 0.725 (NS) | | Sonographic | | | | | Cervical length (cm) | 3.424 (±0.6582) | 3.535 (±0.627) | 0.2120 (NS) | | Funneling | 3 | 1 | | | Length of funnel (cm) | 1.475 (±0.459) | 1.72 (±0) | | | Diameter of os (cm) | 0.25 (0.15–1.08) | 0.71 (±0) | | | S. interleukin-6 (pg/ml) | 0 (0–100) | 0 (0–100) | 0.4205 (NS) | | S. alpha-fetoprotein (ng/ml) | 68 (0–208) | 62 (0–280) | 0.5462 (NS) | | S. alkaline phosphatase (U/I) | 212.511 (±98.538) | 172.835 (±79.214) | 0.0003 (Sig) | | S. ferritin (ng/ml) | 10 (2–90) | 15 (1–98) | 0.0134 (sig) | | S. iron (g/dl) | 54.5 (17–211) | 60 (16–424) | 0.2741 (NS) | | S. granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (pg/ml) | 10 (0–360) | 15 (0–560) | 0.4728 (NS) | | Insulin growth factor binding protein-1 | | | | | (in cervicovaginal secretion) | | | | | Negative | 24 (88.89) | 46 (88.46) | 1.000 (NS) | | Positive | 3 (11.11) | 6 (11.54) | | | Interleukin-6 (pg/ml) | 0 (0–2) | 0 (0–2) | 0.312 (NS) | | (in cervicovaginal secretion) |
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