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Vitamin E, a potent antioxidant, may play a role in preventing preeclampsia. Maternal blood samples were collected between 28 and 40 weeks’ gestation from women with mild preeclampsia (n=17), women with severe preeclampsia (n=16) and the control group (n=15). This control group was consisted of 15 pregnant women without hypertension episode during their pregnancy. Vitamin E levels were significantly higher in normotensive pregnant women (1.00±0.20 mg/dL) than in those with mild (0.56±0.15 mg/dL) or severe (0.37±0.75 mg/dL) preeclampsia (P<0.001). In preeclamptic women, when systolic blood pressure increases, maternal levels of vitamin E significantly decrease (P<0.05), also when diastolic blood pressure increases, maternal levels of vitamin E significantly decrease (P<0.05). Measurement of vitamin E concentration in plasma may be useful as a prognostic marker of the likely development of preeclampsia.
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Received: May 1999 / Accepted: 7 December 1999
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Akyol, D., Mungan, T., Görkemli, H. et al. Maternal levels of vitamin E in normal and preeclamptic pregnancy. Arch Gynecol Obstet 263, 151–155 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s004040050271
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s004040050271