title: Evaluation of haptoglobin phenotypes in association with clinical features of patients suffered from preterm labor disease.
abstract: Preterm birth means the birth before thirty seven week of pregnancy that causes a lot of complications for the baby. Variety factors are suggested to be involved in disease. In this study, we decided to evaluate haptoglobin (Hp) phenotypes association with clinical features of patients suffered from premature delivery to understand better the possible correlation of genetic and clinical features in this disease. This cross-sectional analytic descriptive study has been carried out in two groups of 120 women, 60 with preterm and 60 with term labor. Patients were selected with previously diagnosed by gynecologist with preterm birth in the labor during the study period. After performing diagnostic tests, the frequency of each haptoglobin phenotype in the two groups was analyzed using the Chi-square test (X2) test and SPSS software. The maximum serum haptoglobin phenotype frequency in patients with Hp2-2, was 43 (71.7%) whereas in healthy individuals, 35 (58.3%). No, statistically significant differences between the two groups were found (p=0.310). But based on some patients clinical features such as their history of preterm delivery, previous history of recurrent abortions and history of preterm delivery in their family, significant association was found with Hp2-2 compared with healthy control (p<0.003). This study showed that Hp2-2 phenotypes levels in the case group was higher than in control but the factors influencing the presence or absence of preterm labor is clinically various.
authors.affiliation: Research Center for Cellular and Molecular, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran. & Department of Immunology and Hematology, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran. h_khazaei118@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Hossein Ali
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Khazaei
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran. h_khazaei118@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Batoul
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Teymuri
authors.affiliation: Department of Gynecology, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran. h_khazaei118@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Alireza
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nakhaei
authors.affiliation: Department of Biostatistics, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran. h_khazaei118@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Mehdi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mohammadi
authors.affiliation: Department of Gynecology, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran. h_khazaei118@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Mehrangeez
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Noura
authors.affiliation: Research Center for Cellular and Molecular, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran. & Department of Immunology and Hematology, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran. h_khazaei118@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Amin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Khazaei
authors.affiliation: Research Center for Cellular and Molecular, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran. & Department of Immunology and Hematology, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran. h_khazaei118@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Neda
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tofigh
authors.affiliation: Research Center for Immunodeficiency, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. & Children's Medical Center, and Molecular Immunology Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. h_khazaei118@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Nima
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Rezaei
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D005260:Female; D006242:Haptoglobins / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D007752:Obstetric Labor, Premature / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011247:Pregnancy; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D006242:Haptoglobins