Correlation between vitamin A and E concentrations during pregnancy and preeclampsia / 中国医师杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the relationship between vitamin A and vitamin E concentra-tions and preeclampsia. Methods A total of 160 pregnant women who were finished normal perinatal care and tested for serum vitamin A and vitamin E concentrations in the First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen Uni-versity (Shenzhen Second People's Hospital) from March 1, 2018 to February 28, 2019, including 80 pre-eclampsia cases and 80 healthy control cases were enrolled in the study. The concentrations of serum vita-mins A and E in early pregnancy ( <14 weeks) and late pregnancy (≥34 weeks) were determined by high performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry. The collected clinical and test data were sta-tistically analyzed. Results ⑴There was no significant difference in vitamin A concentration between pre-eclampsia group and control group during early pregnancy (P=0. 360) and there was no significant differ-ence in vitamin A concentration between preeclampsia group and control group during late pregnancy ( P=0. 450). ⑵ The concentration of vitamin E in early pregnant women in preeclampsia group was [(9. 51 ± 2. 82)mg/L], which was lower than that in healthy control group [(11. 19 ± 3. 04)mg/L], with significant statistically difference (t=8. 85, P=0. 01); the vitamin E concentration in late pregnant women in pre-eclampsia group was [(13. 52 ± 4. 40)mg/L], which was lower than that in healthy control group [(16. 20 ± 5. 00)mg/L], with significant statistically difference (t=10. 9, P=0. 01). ⑶Logistic regression anal-ysis showed that there was a correlation between vitamin E concentration in early pregnancy and late preg-nancy and preeclampsia. Conclusions There was no significant correlation between vitamin A concentra-tion and preeclampsia. Vitamin E may be involved in the pathogenesis of pre-eclampsia.