Arch Gynecol Obstet
January 2015
Purpose: Aim of this prospective investigation was to assess pre-eclampsia by bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA).
Methods: A total of 22 pre-eclamptic as well as matched (patients' age, gestational age, parity, gravidity) healthy pregnant women underwent whole body BIA on admission and then, pre-eclamptic patients, every 2 days until childbirth. For all measured BIA single values and their corresponding reference value mean, standard deviation, minimum and maximum were calculated to compare pre-eclamptic women with corresponding reference values.
Aim: To generate reference values for bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) in a German collective of healthy pregnant women.
Materials And Methods: A total of 90 women with a singleton gestation from 23+0 to 40+6 weeks of pregnancy were enrolled from April 2012 until May 2013. Each week of gestation was represented by the same number of women (n=5).