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Background: Preeclampsia refers to the new onset of hypertension and proteinuria or hypertension and end-organ dysfunction with or without proteinuria after 20 weeks of gestation in a previously normotensive woman
Objective: This study was aimed to evaluate the relationship between Neutrophil/Lymphocyte ratio [NLR] in patients with pre-eclampsia [PE] and severity of preeclampsia. Subjects and methods: This prospective study comprised a total of 150 pregnant females divided in 3 groups "50 healthy pregnant females [Group 1], 50 females with mild pre-eclampsia [Group 2] and 50 with severe pre-eclampsia [Group 3]". All the study participants were statistically compared in respect to Neutrophil/Lymphocyte Ratio [NLR] and the baseline data including age and BMI
Results: Maternal NLR was determined to be significantly high in the pre-eclamptic patients [Groups 2 and 3] compared to those with healthy pregnancies [Group 1] [p = 0.0003]. NLR was significantly higher in the severe pre-eclampsia group than in the mild pre-eclampsia group [p = 0.042]
Conclusion: It could be concluded that while NLR was determined as significantly high in patients with pre- eclampsia, to be able to use this in the classification of the severity of pre-eclampsia, there is a need for further studies on a more extensive population