| dc.description.abstract | Despite many studies on Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and pregnancy,
there is still insufficient information regarding the effect of HIV on progesterone in advancing
pregnancy. In a prospective cohort study, 44 antiretroviral therapy naïve adult asymptomatic
HIV-infected pregnant women and 44 healthy HIV-non-infected pregnant women matched
by age, parity, CD4 count and gestational time were recruited in western Kenya to test for the
trends of progesterone hormone levels in advancing pregnancy of HIV-infected and non-
infected women. Blood sample from all study participants was collected, and progesterone
hormone levels determined using Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay method at first
(baseline), second and third trimesters. The changes of progesterone were assessed using
repeated measures regression models and presented alongside the graphical … | en_US |
