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Query: UMLS:C0085580 (essential hypertension)
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The plasma levels of heparin cofactor II were determined in pregnant women who were either normotensive, or had essential hypertension, gestational hypertension or pre-eclampsia during the third trimester and 72 h after delivery. Heparin cofactor II levels in the pre-eclampsia group were depressed. The clinical relevance of this finding is the potential utility of heparin cofactor II plasma levels in the differential diagnostic between non-proteinuric hypertension and pre-eclampsia.
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PMID:Heparin cofactor II: a new marker for pre-eclampsia. 962 21