Survey the relationship between diet and occurrence of preeclampsia in the pregnant women of Tehran city

Background & Aims of the Study: Preeclampsia is the most common clinicalsymptom of pregnancy period. According to the importance of preeclampsia andthe lack of definite and effective factors on it, this study was performed by the aimof survey the relationship between diet and occurrence of preeclampsia in thepregnant women of Tehran city in 2012.Materials & Methods: This longitudinal study (prospective) was performed on1033 pregnant women in prenatal clinics in Tehran city. At the beginning of thestudy, it were completed the food eating frequency and demographicquestionnaires from all samples once before twentieth week through face to faceinterviews. Nutritional data that were achieved from the questionnaire of everyunderstudied unit that recorded all of foods consumed by mother were changed tothe gram by the researcher and analyzed by the software of N4 to calculatenutrient intake of mothers. Pregnant women were followed since the entrance to the study to the time of delivery. The significance level used in the tests was lessthan 0.05.Results: Twenty pregnant women (1.9%) form 1033 studied women werediagnosed preeclampsia. The results of independent T-test showed that theaverage intake level of antioxidant nutrients (such as zinc, vitamin A, C, E) inwomen with preeclampsia were significantly low.Conclusions: The results showed that the reduction in daily intake of antioxidantnutrients is associated with the occurrence of preeclampsia.

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PreeclampsiaPregnancyAnti-oxidantNutrients