Abstract

EVALUATION AND COMPARISON OF HIGH SENSITIVE C-REACTIVE PROTEIN AND URINARY CALCIUM / CREATININE RATIO IN NORMAL PREGNANCY AND PREECLAMPSIA

Sonia Jindal, Suvarna Prasad, Tejinder Kaur and Rajinder Prasad*

ABSTRACT

Preeclampsia is a serious complication of the second half of pregnancy that develops in 4-5 % of human pregnancies. We performed a study to investigate thelevels of serum high sensitive C-reactive protein, urinary calcium and urinary creatinine in normal pregnancy and in preeclampsia in 160 individuals (60 control and 60 cases) at Mullana, Ambala, Haryana and the levels of Hs-CRP found to be non-significant (p>0.05) lower and the levels of urinary calcium was significantly (p<0.001) lower in preeclampsia as compared to normal pregnant women. The level of urinary creatinine was significantly (p<0.001) higher and urinary calcium/creatinine ratio was significantly (p<0.001) lower in preeclampsia than normal pregnant women.

Keywords: Preeclampsia, C-reactive protein, Gestation, blood pressure.