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Correlation between pre-eclampsia and Body Mass Index (BMI)

. 1Fozia sheikh, 2Mubeena Laghari, 3Sarwa Talpur, 4Pirah Memon, 5Syed Murtaza Ali, 6Sidra Faisal


Abstract

The level of C-reactive protein (CRP)with the following incidence of pre-eclampsia, a extremely important relationship was known with a vital modifier being body mass index.1,2 These findings square measure of interest for numerous reasons. First of all, they show a connection between pro-inflammatory indicators and maternal diseases including the emergence of pre-eclampsia and an elevated BMI with elevated CRP levels3,4. This is interesting because increase body weight may occur as an independent early event in the aetiology of pre-eclampsia because it influences to greater CRP levels, despite inflammation being considered a subsequent event in most cases of pre-eclampsia

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