Maternal serum copeptin concentrations in early- and late-onset pre-eclampsia

• Main Authors: Abdullah Tuten (Author), Mahmut Oncul (Author), Mine Kucur (Author), Metehan Imamoglu (Author), Ozlem Balcı Ekmekci (Author), Abdullah Serdar Acıkgoz (Author), Fatma Selcen Cebe (Author), Cengiz Yesilbas (Author), Rıza Madazlı (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2015-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective: Early-onset pre-eclampsia is primarily associated with placental dysfunction, whereas late-onset pre-eclampsia is defined as a maternal constitutional disorder. As a protein cosynthesized with vasopressin, copeptin is a potential marker of metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance, which...