Liver function tests in normal pregnancy: A prospective study of 103 pregnant women and 103 matched controls
✍ Scribed by Y Bacq; O Zarka; J Brechot; N Mariotte; S Vol; J Tichet; J Weill
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 151 KB
- Volume
- 23
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-9139
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✦ Synopsis
levels increase progressively and reach a maximum included in this study. Hypertension (blood pressure equal during the third trimester. 1 These sex steroids have to or greater than 140/90 mm Hg), hyperglycemia (glycemia greater than 5.5 mmol/L), generalized pruritus, jaundice, or a consumption of wine greater than two glasses per day were criteria for exclusion. Among the 103 pregnant women, 34 Abbreviations: LFT, liver function test; AP, alkaline phosphatase; ALT, were first trimester, 36 second trimester, and 33 were third alanine transaminase; AST, aspartate transaminase; GGT, g-glutamyl transpeptidase; TBA, total bile acids.
trimester. Forty-one were primigravida, 61 were multigrav-From the 1 Service d'he ´patogastroente ´rologie, Ho ˆpital Trousseau, Tours; the ida, and 1 was unknown. Each pregnant woman was matched 2 Laboratoire de biochimie, Ho ˆpital Trousseau, Tours; and the 3 Institut Re ´for age with a nonpregnant woman not receiving oral contragional pour la Sante ´, La Riche, France.
ception. The women's ages were 27 { 4 years (mean { SD;