Key result
Pregnancy induced hypertension and essential hypertension were associated with higher mean smooth muscle antibody titers compared to normal pregnancy.
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Do smooth muscle antibody titers differ among women with pregnancy-induced hypertension, essential hypertension, and normal pregnancy?
Observational (n=96)
Do smooth muscle antibody titers differ among women with pregnancy-induced hypertension, essential hypertension, and normal pregnancy?
Pregnancy-induced hypertension is associated with increasing smooth muscle antibody titers, suggesting that recent-onset hypertension may induce SMA production.
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Hypertensive pregnancies link to higher SMA titers; Level 3 data leaves open diagnostic or mechanistic roles.
Smooth muscle antibodies (SMA) were monitored in terms of titer, immunoglobulin class and staining pattern by indirect immunofluorescence assay during the pregnancies of 32 women with pregnancy induced hypertension (PIH), 21 with essential hypertension (EH), and 43 with a normal pregnancy. The mean SMA titer was higher both in PIH and EH than in normal pregnancy. SMA were mainly of the IgG class and gave a "vessel wall" staining pattern in immunofluorescence. The tendency for the mean SMA titer to increase was observed in PIH, whereas a falling tendency was found in EH and normal pregnancy. These tendencies suggest that hypertension, the duration of which has been shorter in PIH, induces SMA production. The observed staining pattern suggests the same kind of non-actin specificity for SMA as in our previous study of complications in early pregnancy.
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PIETARINEN et al. (1991) conducted an observational in Hypertensive complications during pregnancy (n=96). Hypertensive complications (pregnancy induced hypertension and essential hypertension) vs. Normal pregnancy was evaluated on Smooth muscle antibodies (SMA) titer, immunoglobulin class, and staining pattern. Pregnancy induced hypertension and essential hypertension were associated with higher mean smooth muscle antibody titers compared to normal pregnancy.
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