Relation between cord arterial pH/base excess and pre-eclampsia in term neonates
| Outcome | All babies | Encephalopathic babies | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-eclampsia | No pre-eclampsia | Pre-eclampsia | No pre-eclampsia | ||||
| pH | |||||||
| n2-150 | 116 | 5634 | 6 | 12 | |||
| mean | 7.196 | 7.236 | (p<0.001) | 7.123 | 7.059 | (p=0.54) | |
| range | 6.82–7.40 | 6.77–7.53 | 6.82–7.29 | 6.83–7.33 | |||
| Base deficit | |||||||
| n2-150 | 91 | 5042 | 3 | 7 | |||
| mean | 8.826 | 7.834 | (p=0.005) | 7.800 | 15.16 | (p=0.03) | |
| range | 19.8–1.5 | 31.0–1.2 | 10.8–6.20 | 21.0–8.20 | |||
↵2-150 Cord blood gases were not measured in all babies; base deficit measurements were more often missing.