Acknowledgements
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Lenita Zajdenverg and Marcus Miranda for their collaboration in the interpretation of the preeclampsia cases, and Joffre Amin Jr and Jorge Rezende Filho for their support throughout the development of the study.This research received financial assistance from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq – grant number: 409032/2016-6) and the Research Support Foundation of the State of Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ – grant number: E-26/202.972/2016-6), and members of the research team had individual grants from CAPES and CNPq.The authors’ contributions were as follows: C. S. was responsible for the research design; C. S., P. C. P. and G. P. B. planned the study. G. P. B., K. S., L. B. G. S., T. S. V. L., E. S.G., P. C. P., R. B. G. B. and K. C. B. R. conducted the research; G. P. B. and D. R. F. performed the statistical analyses. All the authors wrote the paper and contributed to this work.None of the authors has any conflicts of interest to declare.