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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pregnancy Hypertens. 2016 Sep 17;6(4):388–393. doi: 10.1016/j.preghy.2016.09.002

Table 3.

Association between first trimester circulating immune biomarkers and preeclampsia

All PE (n=64)
a HR
(95% CI)
Raw
p-value
b Adjusted
p-value
Preterm PE (n=10)
a HR
(95% CI)
Raw
p-value
b Adjusted
p-value
Term PE (n=54)
a HR
(95% CI)
Raw
p-value
b Adjusted
p-value
IFNγ 1.2 (0.7–2.2) 0.4853 0.9493 3.5 (1.4–8.5) 0.0063 0.1134 0.9 (0.5–1.8) 0.8645 0.9493
IL1β 1.2 (0.8–1.8) 0.4928 0.9493 3.6 (1.7–7.6) 0.0006 0.0216 0.9 (0.6–1.5) 0.8240 0.9493
IL4 1.0 (0.7–1.5) 0.8036 0.9493 1.2 (0.6–2.6) 0.4880 0.9493 1.0 (0.7–1.5) 0.9493 0.9493
IL4r 1.1 (0.8–1.6) 0.4645 0.9493 1.5 (0.7–2.8) 0.2754 0.8019 1.1 (0.8–1.5) 0.6458 0.9493
IL5 1.0 (0.7–1.6) 0.6725 0.9493 2.1 (1.0–4.2) 0.0422 0.5064 0.9 (0.6–1.5) 0.8217 0.9493
IL8 1.0 (0.8–1.4) 0.8410 0.9493 0.8 (0.4–1.8) 0.6351 0.5885 1.0 (0.8–1.4) 0.8977 0.9493
IL6 1.3 (0.9–1.9) 0.1431 0.6244 1.5 (0.8–3.0) 0.1750 0.6886 1.3 (0.9–1.8) 0.2543 0.7629
IL6r 0.9 (0.7–1.4) 0.9445 0.9493 1.0 (0.5–2.0) 0.8894 0.9493 1.0 (0.5–2.0) 0.8981 0.9493
IL10 1.1 (0.8–1.7) 0.4894 0.9493 1.6 (0.8–3.2) 0.2060 0.7063 1.1 (0.7–1.6) 0.7499 0.9493
IL12 1.6 (1.1–2.6) 0.0255 0.5064 2.2 (1.0–5.0) 0.0589 0.5774 1.6 (1.0–2.5) 0.0655 0.5648
MIF 1.0 (0.7–1.4) 0.8925 0.9493 0.8 (0.4–1.7) 0.5518 0.9493 1.0 (0.7–1.5) 0.9201 0.9493
MIP 1.2 (0.8–1.7) 0.3866 0.9278 1.7 (0.9–3.4) 0.0973 0.5838 1.1 (0.7–1.6) 0.6814 0.9493
TGFβ 1.2 (0.9–1.7) 0.2741 0.7739 1.5 (0.8–3.1) 0.2361 0.7555 1.2 (0.8–1.7) 0.4155 0.9493
TNFα 0.9 (0.6–1.5) 0.7802 0.9493 0.9 (0.4–2.5) 0.8184 0.9493 0.9 (0.6–1.6) 0.8230 0.9493
TNFβ 1.1 (0.6–2.1) 0.7305 0.9493 2.1 (0.7–5.9) 0.1786 0.6886 1.0 (0.5–1.9) 0.9341 0.9493
TNFr 0.9 (0.6–1.2) 0.3470 0.8766 2.0 (1.0–3.6) 0.0460 0.5462 0.8 (0.5–1.1) 0.1138 0.5885
a

Hazard ratio (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were calculated using cox regression. Hazard ratios can be interpreted as adjusted odds ratios (Dinse et al.) All models were adjusted for maternal age, fetal sex, BMI, SES, gestational age at blood draw and smoking

b

Adjusted for multiple comparisons