Table 1.

Clinical baseline characteristics for women with uneventful pregnancy, women with PE and women with GDM.

		Uneventful pregnancy (n = 101)	PE (n = 55)	P-value1	PE longitudinal (n = 11)	P-value2	PE state of disease (n = 44)	P-value3	GDM (n = 36)	P-value4
Age, years	median (IQR)	30 (26–34)	34 (27–37)	0.02	34 (31–35)	0.07	34 (26–37)	0.07	34 (29–37)	0.03
Caucasian	%	94	98	0.42	100	0.41	98	0.34	94	0.93
BMI, kg/m2	median (IQR)	24 (22–27)	26 (23–30)	0.09	27 (26–30)	0.02	25 (23–29)	0.34	27 (24–34)	0.002
Gravidity, n	median (IQR)	2 (1–3)	2 (1–3)	0.22	2 (2–4)	0.16	1 (1–3)	0.04	3 (1–4)	0.07
Primigravidae	%	28	46	0.25	9	0.18	55	0.002	25	0.75
Multigravidae	%	35	31	0.64	46	0.48	27	0.38	53	0.06
Parity, n	median (IQR)	1 (0–1)	0 (0–1)	0.21	1 (0–2)	0.24	0 (0–1)	0.05	1 (0–2)	0.03
Nullipara	%	41	58	0.04	28	0.39	66	0.005	28	0.17
Multipara	%	7	13	0.23	9	0.79	14	0.19	22	0.01
Prior abortion	%	27	22	0.57	27	0.97	21	0.42	19	0.5
Prior abruption	%	3	7	0.24	18	0.08	5	0.63	6	0.61
Smoking	%	21	9	0.07	9	0.35	9	0.09	17	0.59
Pregnancy duration, days	median (IQR)	278 (269–284)	239 (207–259)	<0.001	256 (228–268)	<0.001	234 (207–248)	<0.001	269 (264–278)	<0.001
Caesarean section	%	36	87	<0.001	100	<0.001	84	<0.001	78	<0.001
Preterm delivery5	%	0	51	<0.001	27	0.001	57	<0.001	0	<0.001
Birth weight, g	median (IQR)	3410 (3160–3740)	1608 (990–2370)	<0.001	2310 (1530–2640)	<0.001	1530 (983–2228)	<0.001	3285 (2951–3668)	0.2
Infant sex female	%	52	55	0.74	36	0.34	59	0.39	42	0.34

BMI, body mass index; GDM, gestational diabetes; IQR, inter quartile range; PE, preeclampsia.

¹uneventful pregnancy vs. PE; ²uneventful pregnancy vs. PE longitudinal. ³uneventful pregnancy vs. PE ‘state of disease’. ⁴uneventful pregnancy vs. GDM. ⁵(<week 34 + 0).