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Pre-eclampsia is a serious problem of pregnancy that is associated with proteinuria and increased blood pressure in the second half of pregnancy. It is one of the three leading causes of maternal and fetal mortality. Dysregulated expression of miRNAs related to angiogenesis plays a role in pre-eclampsia and can be considered in the diagnosis of this complication. In the current study, we sought to investigate the expression of Drosha, Dicer, and DGCR8 genes in patients with preeclampsia.

This descriptive-analytic study was carried out among 84 healthy non-pregnant and pregnant women who visited the Women’s Clinic of Alavi Hospital during 2014-2015. The subjects were randomly divided into three groups of 28 each, namely pregnant women with pre-eclampsia, healthy pregnant women, and healthy non-pregnant women (control). Demographic, clinical, and anthropometric data such as …