BACKGROUND A number of different biophysical and biochemical markers have been proposed as predictors of preeclampsia. Factors involved in the angiogenic balance are suggested as candidate markers. The purpose of this prospective, longitudinal cohort study was to determine whether a ratio between Angiopoietin-1 (Ang-1) and Angiopoietin-2 (Ang-2) can be used to predict preeclampsia in a low-risk...

This chapter is adapted from a paper in preparation by Carl-Johan Haster, Fabio Antonini, Ilya Mandel and Vicky Kalogera [34]. This paper grew out of a collaboration between the four authors during my pre-doctoral fellowship at the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration in Astrophysics at Northwestern University. My contribution to this work was (i) initialised, ran and post-processed the N -...