PLASMA FIBRONECTIN LEVELS AND AGE-CORRECTED BIRTH-WEIGHT IN HYPERTENSIVE-NORMOTENSIVE MOTHERS AND THEIR NEWBORNS

Serum fibronectin levels were measured in 63 mothers including 16 heal thy normotensive pregnant women, 17 eclamptic women, 16 pre-eclamptic women, and 14 chronic hypertensive patients; as well as their term new borns. There was negative correlation between age-corrected birth weig ht and mothers' fibronectin levels in the eclamptic and preeclamptic g roups, but no significant correlation in the chronic hypertensive grou p and healthy pregnant women.