Abstract

TOLEDO BRAVO, Lidia  and  ROMAN COLLAZO, Carlos Alberto. Lipid profile as a risk factor for preeclampsia in pregnant women. Vive Rev. Salud [online]. 2022, vol.5, n.14, pp.495-506.  Epub Aug 04, 2022. ISSN 2664-3243.  https://doi.org/10.33996/revistavive.v5i14.163.

Preeclampsia is a complication of pregnancy, whose prevalence is estimated between 4 and 7% of pregnancies worldwide. In Ecuador, hypertensive disorders were responsible for 20.6% of maternal mortality (years 2017-2018). Hence the importance of studies of their timely diagnosis. Objective. To associate the lipid profile as a risk factor in the suffering of preeclampsia in pregnant women who attended the Hospital Sagrado Corazón de Jesús, during the years 2020-2021. Materials and Methods. The type of design used for the research, in a population of 300 pregnant women, was non-experimental, documentary, cohort, observational, correlational and quantitative. The Chi-square test was used in the analysis of significant differences between categorical variables. The Mann-Whitney U test was used to calculate the relationship between preeclampsia or not during pregnancy and the variables that make up the lipid profile. Results. Preeclampsia was found in 35.33% of the study population. In the variables analyzed as part of the lipid profile, using the Mann-Whitney U technique, a p-value of less than 0.5 was obtained, as described below: for triglycerides <.001; for HDL cholesterol 0.421; for LDL cholesterol 0.003; and for total cholesterol <.001. In comparative analyses with other studies, similar results are described, but not in all the comparison averages coincide. Conclusions. There is a statistically significant difference in the lipid profile of women with preeclampsia compared to the lipid profile of women without preeclampsia

Keywords : Preeclampsia; Pregnancy; Dyslipidemia; Cholesterol; Triglycerides.

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