Composition of free fatty acids at the end of pregnancy and inducibility of labor.
The concentrations of free fatty acids which included prostaglandin precursors were investigated in a group of 54 healthy women coming to elective induction of labor. There were no differences between the concentrations of the fatty acids when the mothers were divided in two groups according to whether induction was successful or not. There were slightly more mothers with successful induction, who had the total prostaglandin precursor level above average than among mothers with unsuccessful induction (p less than 0.05). The rates of false positives or false negatives were so high, however, that this determination can not be clinically used in predicting the outcome of labor induction.
D001095:Arachidonic Acids / Q000097:blood; D005230:Fatty Acids, Nonesterified / Q000097:blood*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007751:Labor, Induced; D011247:Pregnancy; D011263:Pregnancy Trimester, Third; D011453:Prostaglandins / Q000096:biosynthesis*
D001095:Arachidonic Acids; D005230:Fatty Acids, Nonesterified; D011453:Prostaglandins