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Abstract
from the present study it may be concluded that high serum ferritin level is a risk factor for preterm labor, therefore Serum ferritin may be considered as a biochemical marker for detecting preterm labor, as it is cost effective and easily done in laboratories.
Various serum ferritin cutoff levels have been suggested in previous sttudies to predict preterm delivery such as 40 ng/ml. In the present study, cut offpoint of 19.95 ng/ml was used to assess the diagnostic accuracy of serum ferritin in predicting preterm labor.
We had some limitations like sample size was too small, we did not correlate that with different gestational age.
Recommendations
Other studies should be done in larger population and future research should focus on the development of a risk model with input of individual clinical & biochemical factors to predict preterm with both high sensitivity and specificity.