LULZIME KOKIÇI1, MIRELA LIKA2 (ÇEKANI)
1“IDA” Clinic Biochemical Laboratory, Shkodër, Albania
2Department of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Tirana University, Albania
*Correspondin author email: lulzime_kokici@yahoo.com
Abstract
Preeclampsia is a clinical syndrome peculiar only during pregnancy. From the data obtained in the maternity of the regional hospital of Shkodra city, department of obstetrics, for the period 2007-2012, are resulted 13.994 paved mothers. Among this number 246 women are affected by preeclampsia, thus the value of incidence is 1.76%. Of the total number of paved mothers in the department of obstetrics for the period 2007-2012, 5.557 belong to Shkodra city, by these 71 women are affected by preeclampsia with the incidence 1.28%. From rural areas of Shkodra there are 7.223 paved women with 149 cases of preeclampsia by the incidence 2.06%. The number of mothers paved in the department of obstetrics, from the other districts of Albania, was 1.214 with 26 cases of preeclampsia by the incidence 2.14%. According the analysis based on the age of mothers, from 246 cases of preeclampsia, 38.6% belong to the mothers under 24 years of age, 48.4% from the mothers 25-34 years of age and 13% from the mothers over 35 years of age. The incidence rate of preeclampsia has a value of 1.63% in the age groups of mothers 15-24 years and 11.1% in the age groups of mothers over 44 years. This fact suggests that there is a link between the mother’s age and the incidence of preeclampsia.
Keywords: Incidence of preeclampsia, pregnant woman, risk factors of preeclampsia, health care.
