Amar Lal Gurbakhshani, Asmat Kamal Ansari, Nighat Rukhsana, Noushaba Mumtaz.
Iron status in Pregnancy complicated with PreEclampsia.
Med Channel Jan ;12(4):42-6.

The present study was undertaken to evaluate the iron-status in preeclampsia and a possible contributory role of iron in the etiology of preeclampsia. The study subjects were classified into two groups, normal healthy pregnant women as a control and preeclamptic group. The blood was used for estimation of hemoglobin and haematocrit while serum was used to assess the serum iron, total iron binding capacity (TIBC) and serum ferritin. Significantly increased levels of iron, serum ferritin and transferrin saturation were found in preeclamptic as compared to control group. The total iron binding capacity (TIBC) and unsaturated iron binding capacity (UIBC) were significantly decreased in preeclamptic group as compared to the control group. It was concluded from this study that increased level of serum iron may be implicated in oxidative stress in preeclampsia but no positive correlation was found between serum iron, serum ferritin, total iron binding capacity and elevated blood pressure in preeclamptic group.

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