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Table 1 Biological characteristics of the study population

From: Genome–wide microRNA expression profiling in placentas from pregnant women exposed to BPA

Features

Total number (%)

Healthy pregnant women with normal fetus

40 (50)

Healthy pregnant women iving in a polluted area; these

40 (50)

women were subject to therapeutic abortion

 

Age

 

 25-34

40 (50)

 35-40

40 (50)

Week of gestation

 

 13-16

7 (17,5)

 17-20

10 (25)

 21-24

12 (30)

 >24

11 (27,5)

Maternal BMI

27.5 (Mean)

Gender ratio

 

 Male

42 (52.5)

 Female

38 (47.5)

Malformation

 

 Trisomy 21

6 (20)

 Nervous system diseases

13 (26,7)

 Other

5 (16,6)

 Cardiac malformation

14 (30)

 Hydrops fetalis

2 (6,7)