abstract background: obesity is an independent risk factor of preeclampsia with unknown mechanism and hyperlipidemia might be a probable case of it. objective: the objective of this study was to determine the role of hyper-triglyceridemi in association with high prepregnancy body mass index and the risk of preeclampsia. materials and methods: the authors conducted this case-control study of 42 ...

background and objective: hypertensive disorders complicating pregnancy are common and from one of the deadly triad, along with hemorrhage and infection that contribute greatly to prenatal and maternal morbidity and mortality in the developing countries. this study was designed to investigate the relationship between maternal hypothyroidism and pre-eclampsia. materials and methods: in a prospec...

background: pre-eclampsia, a vascular disorder of pregnancy, is a leading cause of maternal morbidity as well as perinatal morbidity and mortality. the cause of pre-eclampsia remains largely unknown. accumulating evidences from clinical and epidemiological studies suggest that diffuse endothelial dysfunction, resulting from oxidative stress, plays an important role in the pathogenesis of pre-ec...

objective: to examine association between maternal socio-cultural status, as indicated by maternal income, education and polygamy with severity of pre–eclampsia. materials and methods: this study was carried out in primary health centers in katsina, adamawa and borno states. a total of two groups of subjects were selected for the study, with 50 subjects in each group. group a - pregnant non hyp...

abstract the first time weinstein in 1982 described patients with the syndrome of hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, and low platelet count (hellp) in pregnant preeclamptic and eclamptic patients. this syndrome is a severe form of preeclampsia or eclampsia. usually hellp syndrome occurs at the third trimester and only 15% occur before the 27th week of pregnancy and rarely before the 20th week o...

background: preeclampsia (pe) is a pregnancy specific syndrome that is associated with high maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality. glucose regulated protein78 (grp78) is an endoplasmic reticulum (er) protein which is expressed on the cell surfaces of trophoblast cells under stress or hypoxic condition. grp78 has a role in aggressive behavior of invasive cells and may play a role in normal ...

the name of sadegh hedayat(1903-1951) reminds many people of a pioneering author in fiction, with works having a lot of advocates and opponents.  hence, many studies have been conducted regarding his works in the area of stories and translation from french, but his researches on and translations from the pahlavi language has less been noticed and analysed, however, he was one of the leading aut...