Serum Beta-Trace Protein as a Novel Predictor of Pregnancy-Induced Hypertension

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• 作者：Bide Duan ; Lei Zhang ; Xiaoyan Ding ; Ling Li ; Yuan Li ; Hui Geng and Yuyan Ma
• 刊名：The Journal of Clinical Hypertension
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：October 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：18
• 期：10
• 页码：1022-1026
• 全文大小：174K
• ISSN：1751-7176

文摘

Beta-trace protein (BTP) has emerged as a novel biomarker of cardiovascular risk. However, the level of circulating BTP in pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH) is still unknown. The aim of this study was to determine the concentration of serum BTP in healthy pregnant women and patients with PIH. No significant difference was found in the serum concentration of BTP in patients with a normal pregnancy. In contrast, serum BTP levels in women with PIH (n=46) were significantly higher than those in women with normal pregnancy (n=57). Receiver operating characteristic analysis revealed that using a serum BTP value of 321.3 ng/mL as a cutoff produced a sensitivity of 91.3% and a specificity of 89.5%. Taken together, these findings suggest that a higher serum BTP concentration in PIH patients compared with those with normal pregnancy and serum BTP might be a novel biomarker in the diagnosis of PIH.