Impact of High Altitude on Maternal Serum Leptin Level and Its Correlation with Oxidative Stress and Endothelial Inflammatory Markers in Preeclamptic Women

Salah Omar Bashir ； Mohamed Darwesh Morsy ； Abass Omar Elkarib ； Humeda Suekit Humeda ； Abdalla Abdelrahim Abusham ； Moutasem Salih Aboonq ； Ahmed Ibrahim Agamy

《The Chinese Journal of Physiology》 61卷1期 (2018/02) Pp. 50-56

https://doi.org/10.4077/CJP.2018.BAG537

摘要

Involvement of leptin in the pathogensis of preeclampsia (PE) is still a controversy subject. Several researches reported the changes in serum leptin in high altitude (HA) residents. The aim of the present work was to investigate the impact of oxidative stress (OS) induced by HA residence on maternal serum leptin in PE and if there was a significant correlation between the serum leptin with either OS or endothelial inflammatory markers. One hundred fifty eight pregnant women were included in this study, divided into: low altitude normal pregnancies (NL), HA normal pregnancies (NH), low altitude preeclamptic (PL), and HA preeclamptic (PH) who presented to the obstetrics and gynecology outpatient clinic in both Muhayl (500 m over sea level) and Abha General Hospitals (all of them resident at Alsoda district with the average altitude 2700 m over sea level). Serum leptin, superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity, malondialdehyde (MDA), plasma nitrite/nitrate (NOx), serum tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α), interleukin 6 (IL-6), blood urea nitrogen (BUN) and creatinine were determined. Both NH and PL groups showed significant increases in leptin (P ＜ 0.01), SOD (P ＜ 0.01), MDA (P ＜ 0.001), NOx (P ＜ 0.001), TNF-α (P ＜ 0.001) and IL-6 (P ＜ 0.001) compared with the NL group without any significant changes between both groups. The PH group showed significant accentuation of the previously measured parameters (P ＜ 0.001 for all) compared with all other groups (NL, NH and PL groups). We can conclude that the combination of PE and HA residence resulted in significantly elevated maternal serum leptin suggesting involvement of leptin in the pathogenesis of PE accentuated by HA residence.

關鍵字

high altitude ； inflammatory markers ； leptin ； oxidative stress ； preeclampsia

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