Ayman Mostafa Abderlrahman Ahmed  <br/><br/>
Comparative study between early second trimester maternal serum homocysteine and leptin as predictors of preeclampsia /  
 دراسة مقارنة لقياس مستوى الهموسيستيين والليبتن فى مفصل الامهات للتنبؤ المبكر لحدوث حالات ارتفاع ضغط الدم المصاحبة للحمل 
Ayman Mostafa Abderlrahman Ahmed ; Supervised Tharwat Mohamed Kamel Elahwany , Manal Hamdy Elsaid 
 - Cairo :   Ayman Mostafa Abderlrahman Ahmed ,   2009 
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<br/><br/>Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics 
<br/><br/> 50 women were included into the ststistical analysis and 26 (52%) of them developed pre-eclampsia during follow- up . This study revealed a cutoff level of homocysteine and leptin which are 8.44 and 98.4 ng/ml respectively above which pregnants are more prone to develop preeclampsia . The present study qualitatively showed a more positive association between homocysteine and preeclampsia (PE) (senitivity : 95.8% , specificity : 100%) than between leptin and PE (sensitivity : 58.33% , specificity :66.67%).Thus our study reveals that homocysteine is a more useful perdictor marker than leptine in predicting preeclampsia 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Homocysteine  Leptin  Pre-eclampsia