The Role of Giving High Dose Calcium for Preventing Preeclampsia

Abstract

Objective: Knowing the effectiveness of high doses of calcium in preventing preeclampsia. Methods: Experimental analytical study with Randomized Controlled design Single-blind trial in the form of survival analysis (survival analysis) in the period June 2018 - May 2019 in fetomaternal outpatients clinic in Mohammad Hoesin Hospital, Palembang Results: The mean hemoglobin level at the last visit found that the average hemoglobin level between the two groups was 12.81 in the high calcium group and 12.61 in the low calcium group, while the mean hematocrit level between the two groups was 35.17 in the high calcium group and 34.84 in the low calcium group and the respective calcium levels each group is 10.1. In this study, after high calcium intervention, no pregnant women with preeclampsia were found, whereas in the low-dose calcium intervention group it was found that 3 of 17 patients (17.7%) had preeclampsia. With the McNemar test it was found that there was no difference in the incidence of preeclampsia both after high-dose calcium and low-dose calcium interventions (p = 0.250). Conclusions: High-dose calcium (1.5g - 2g) is effective in preventing preeclampsia and there was no difference in effectiveness between administration of high-dose calcium with low-dose calcium administration to the incidence of preeclampsia.