CRP and preeclampsia: A cross sectional study by Savvidou et al; [33] did not find increased levels of CRP in a prospective study of pregnant women who later developed preeclampsia but the study by Tjoa et al; [34] where the cases and the controls were matched for maternal age, gestational age, parity and gravidity, reported increased levels of CRP in the first trimester blood samples of women who later developed preeclampsia, suggesting a role for CRP as a predictive marker for preeclampsia in early pregnancy.