Table 2 Demographic and clinical characteristics of study population of women with previous singleton pregnancy complicated by early-onset (EO) or late-onset (LO) pre-eclampsia (PE) and controls, obtained retrospectively

LVEF (%)

56 ± 7*^‡

61 ± 5

63 ± 4

 < 0.001

Stroke volume (mL)^a

46 ± 11

50 ± 15

48 ± 18

0.669

LVM (g)

109.9 ± 29.4

108.1 ± 17.1

97.9 ± 17.5

0.081

LVMi (g/m²)

64.7 ± 13.6

64.7 ± 8.2

61.2 ± 10.8

0.389

RWT

0.42 ± 0.09*

0.44 ± 0.11^†

0.36 ± 0.06

0.238

Concentric remodelling

18 (60.0%)*

16 (53.3%)^†

0 (0.0%)

 < 0.001

E/A ratio

1.24 ± 0.19

1.27 ± 0.25

1.18 ± 0.09

0.212

E wave deceleration time (ms)

208 ± 70

185 ± 42

185 ± 13

0.136

E/E’

7.20 ± 1.34

7.37 ± 0.63

6.78 ± 1.13

0.091

Grade I diastolic dysfunction

3 (10.0%)*^‡

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

0.045

pLVM (g)^a

96.7 ± 12.6

97.7 ± 16.2

95.1 ± 19.2

0.820

LVM/pLVM (%)^a

123 ± 36*

112 ± 15

104 ± 16

0.020

Inappropriate LVM^a

12 (52.2%)*^‡

5 (16.7%)^†

0 (0.0%)

0.002

MEE (mL/s)^a

35.2 ± 10.2

39.4 ± 13.6

36.7 ± 14.4

0.502

MEEi (mL/s/g)^a

0.41 ± 0.27

0.47 ± 0.14

0.48 ± 0.12

0.498