. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jul 16.

Published in final edited form as: J Perinatol. 2011 Sep 8;32(5):328–335. doi: 10.1038/jp.2011.101

Table 1.

Patient Characteristics

	Normal Pregnant		Preeclampsia
Characteristics	Female	Male	Female	Male
Maternal age, y	23.1±2.18	24.8±1.26	21.5±2.87	22.4±1.43
Gestational age, weeks	38.8±1.34	39.1±1.23	37.6±0.91	37.1±1.51
BMI (kg/m²)^a	35.2±3.85	34.2±1.01	36.9±5.53	35.7±2.17
Systolic blood pressure, mm Hg	107.7±1.07	118.0±3.67	152.7±3.75^*	155.0±5.54^*
Diastolic blood pressure, mm Hg	62.1±2.69	69.4±3.87	83.2±7.33^*	98.8±5.20^*
Birthweight, g	3425.7±172.16	2927.9±585.29	2393.3±413.12^*	2716.0±537.10
Number of placenta (n)	7	7	5	6
Ethnicity Hispanic White African-American	7 - -	6 1 -	4 - 1	4 1 1

Data are expressed as mean ± SEM. Unpaired Student t test (2-tailed) was used for statistical analysis.

P < .05 vs respective gender in Normal Pregnant.

BMI: Body mass index