Abstract: All consenting 50 cases of nor pregnant women and 50 women with pre-eclampsia attending antenatal clinic for antenatal checkup of >/= 20 who fulfills the inclusion and exclusion criteria were included in this study. Each patient were included only once in the study. Gestational age, parity, socioeconomic status and BMI were matched between cases and controls. History noted and after general physical and obstetric examinations, urine analysis is done to note the extent of proteinuria by dipstick method or by 24 hours urine protein estimation. Then 4 ml of venous blood is drawn from the subjects and sample is analysed for magnesium. Serum magnesium was measured by Calmagite method. Result: The study has been conducted on 100 primigravidae pregnant women. Out of them 50 cases of pre-eclampsia women were in the age group of 18-30 years and belonging from low socio-economic status and the mean serum magnesium was 1.156+/-0.328. In contrast out of 50 cases of pregnant women were in the age group of 18-30 years and belonging from low socio-economic status and the mean serum magnesium was 1.907+/-0.321. The difference between the mean serum magnesium level in pre-eclampsia women and normal pregnant women cases were statistically significant (p=0.0016). From the study presented below it is clear that there are numerous factors that contribute to the causality of pre-eclampsia and from our analysis it was clear that the serum magnesium levels shows an irregular pattern of fluctuations in cases suffering from pre-eclampsia. This irregular behavior of fluctuations in the pre-eclampsia cases can be attributed to numerous physiological causes, some of which are given in our study.
Keywords: Eclampsia, pre-eclampsia, proteinuria, serum magnesium.
Title: HIGH INCIDENCES OF LOW SERUM MAGNESIUM IN PRE-ECLAMPSIA AND ECLAMPSIA THAN IN NORMAL PREGNANCY
Author: Mrs. Chaitali Mondal, Susmita Mukherjee, Dr. Dipak Das
International Journal of Healthcare Sciences
ISSN 2348-5728 (Online)
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