Study on characteristics of gut flora composition of pregnant women with preeclampsia

Objectives To explore the relationship between preeclampsia and the changes of the intestinal microflora so as to provide reference for clinical supplementation of probiotics in the treatment of preeclampsia. Methods Illumina HiSeq sequencing platform was used to sequencing the 16S rRNA gene V4 region of bacteria in stool samples from 54 pregnant women aged 20 weeks or more.