Down-regulation of the transcription factor snail in the placentas of patients with preeclampsia and in a rat model of preeclampsia

Table 1 Clinical characteristics of patients in the study

	Normal term deliveries	Preterm deliveries	Preeclampsia
Patients	9	5	8
Maternal age (years)	29.7 ± 6.4 (22-34)	32.6 ± 7.2 (29-38)	25.8 ± 6.6 (20-36)
Gestational age at deliveries (weeks)	38.3± 0.5 (38-39)	35.4 ± 1.1 (34-36)***	31.3 ± 3.1 (28-36)***
Birth weight (percentile)	77.3 ± 8.2 (70-90)	65.0 ± 26.9 (25-90)	39.5 ± 34.9 (5-95)*

Values represent group mean ± SD. Numbers in the parenthesis show the range of the values
*p < 0.05 preeclampsia versus both preterm and term deliveries
***p < 0.001 preterm and preeclampsia deliveries versus normal term

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