Clinical Study
Levels of Oxidized LDL, Estrogens, and Progesterone in Placenta Tissues and Serum Paraoxonase Activity in Preeclampsia
Table 5
Levels of OxLDL, estriol, estradiol, and progesterone in the placenta of preeclamptic without/with and normal pregnant women.
| Placental tissue | Normal pregnant women () group 1 | Preeclamptic pregnant women without IUGR () group 2 | Preeclamptic pregnant women with IUGR () group 3 | value |
| Mean ± SD |
| OxLDL, µMol/mL/g tissue | 9.85 ± 6.82 | 5.88 ± 4.41
| 8.09 ± 4.26 | 0.058 | Estriol, ng/mL/g tissue | 67.6 ± 23.1 | 43.5 ± 24.6* | 38.4 ± 20.6* | 0.001 |
| Median (min-max) |
| Estradiol, pg/mL/g tissue | 20.3 (6.2–62.5) | 8.2 (5.6–37.2)* | 11.4 (5.3–61.3) | 0.007 | Progesterone, ng/mL/g tissue | 0.22 (0.06–1.18)
| 0.08 (0.06–0.45)* | 0.11 (0.05–0.97)
| 0.007 |
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Statistically significant
*Differ from the normal group: (group 1-2: estriol , group 1–3: estriol , group 1-2: estradiol , group 1-2: progesterone ).
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