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Establishment of Reference Intervals of Complete Blood Count and Coagulation Tests in Pregnant Women at Hung Vuong Hospital

Recruiting
Conditions
Pregnancy Related
Registration Number
NCT05929326
Lead Sponsor
Hung Vuong Hospital
Brief Summary

Rationale: Pregnancy has major effects on physiology in women. There have been many studies that established reference intervals but none was done in Vietnam. The recommendation by CLSI C28-A3 is that if possible, each laboratory establishes its own reference intervals.

Objective: To establish the reference intervals of complete blood count parameters and Prothrombin time (PT), activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT), fibrinogen.

Study design: This is a cross-sectional study.

Study population: Pregnant women with no history of disease and normal clinical findings.

Detailed Description

Reference intervals (RI) is defined as the central 95% interval of the distribution of values taken from a biological reference population. RI is established for each trimester. The sample needed for each trimester is at least 258 which adds up to 774 when combining three trimesters.

Pregnant women are selected if eligible from obstetrics clinics after history taking and clinical findings. After consent, their blood are then drawn by phlebotomist into an EDTA (ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid) and a trisodium citrate 3.2% blood tube. EDTA samples are run on DxH 900 hematology analyzer, manufactured by Beckman Coulter and citrate samples are run on ACL TOP 550 coagulation analyzer, manufactured by Werfen. The analyzers are verified by laboratory procedure, recommended by CLSI (Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute) method and quality control is checked before in accordance to the laboratory procedure.

Statistical analysis: CLSI document C28-A3c recommend establishing reference intervals using the 2.5th and 97.5th percentile of the distribution. The preferred method is nonparametric procedure, which does not need to exclude outliers. Each trimester RI will be compared to each other using z-test to determine if they are significantly different so that there must be seperate RI for each trimester.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
RECRUITING
Sex
Female
Target Recruitment
810
Inclusion Criteria
  • Singleton Pregnancy
Exclusion Criteria
  • Hypertension, Diabetes, Preeclampsia, Gestational Diabetes, Hemoglobinopathy, Current Infection, Positive Screening for Treponema pallidum, Hepatitis B Virus, HIV, usage of anticoagulant drug.

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Trimester specific Fibrinogen reference intervalEach participant's blood samples are run immediately after phlebotomy

Fibrinogen in miligram/deciLiter (mg/dL)

Trimester specific Hemoglobin reference intervalEach participant's blood samples are run immediately after phlebotomy

Hemoglobin in gram/deciLiter (g/dL)

Trimester specific red blood cell count reference intervalEach participant's blood samples are run immediately after phlebotomy

Red blood cell count in million cells/microLiter (M/μl)

Trimester specific Activated partial thromboplastin time reference intervalEach participant's blood samples are run immediately after phlebotomy

Activated partial thromboplastin time in seconds

Trimester specific white blood cell count reference intervalEach participant's blood samples are run immediately after phlebotomy

White blood cell count in thousand cells/microLiter (K/μl)

Trimester specific platelet reference intervalEach participant's blood samples are run immediately after phlebotomy

Platelet in thousand cells/microLiter (K/μl)

Trimester specific Prothrombin time reference intervalEach participant's blood samples are run immediately after phlebotomy

Prothrombin time in seconds

Trimester specific hematocrit reference intervalEach participant's blood samples are run immediately after phlebotomy

Hematocrit in percent (%)

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Hung Vuong Hospital

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Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

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