Bhatia, Pooja http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8506-8001
Goel, Poonam
Mehra, Reeti
Dubey, Sunita
Gupta, Seema
Article History
Received: 22 July 2023
Accepted: 1 October 2023
First Online: 11 November 2023
Declarations
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: The authors have no conflict of interest to declare.
: Approved by the Institutional Ethics Core Committee. The study was conducted among the patients diagnosed with pre-eclampsia at any period of gestation visiting the outpatient department, admitted in antenatal ward or referred to the emergency ward of Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh. It was conducted on ethical guidelines for biomedical research on human subjects as given in the Declaration of Helsinki and the Central Ethics Committee on Human Research (CEHER) of ICMR, New Delhi.
: The purpose of the study was explained to all the potential participants, and a written and informed consent was taken from all the patients. Samples were collected from subjects who gave their consent for inclusion in the study at no cost to the participants. They were given the right to opt out of the study at any time with no impact on the treatment to be given. All information including history, physical and laboratory findings obtained from the participants was kept strictly confidential.