Table 1 Characteristics of high-risk pregnant women and newborns according to the development or not of preeclampsia/eclampsia

From: Nocturnal hypertension and risk of developing early-onset preeclampsia in high-risk pregnancies

 

All cohort n 477

No PE n 364

Late onset PE n 69

Early onset PE n 44

p valuesa

No PE vs late onset

No PE vs early onset

Late vs early PE

Age (mean ± SD, years)

30 ± 7

31 ± 7

28 ± 7

30 ± 7

0.055

0.057

0.844

0.512

Primiparity (%)

24.3

22.5

29.0

31.8

0.247

NA

NA

NA

Current smoking (%)

1.7

1.4

2.9

2.3

0.631

NA

NA

NA

Diabetes (%)

8.4

9.3

7.2

2.3

0.261

NA

NA

NA

Chronic hypertension (%)

23.3

24.4

14.5

27.3

0.161

NA

NA

NA

Chronic renal disease (%)

1.7

1.6

1.4

13.6

<0.001

0.887

<0.001

<0.007

Collagen diseases (%)

2.7

2.7

2.9

2.3

0.979

NA

NA

NA

Weeks at delivery (mean ± SD)

36 ± 3

37 ± 3

36 ± 2

31 ± 3

<0.001

0.005

<0.001

<0.001

Cesarean section (%)

79.9

75.3

92.8

97.7

<0.001

0.002

0.003

0.433

APGAR, (points median (IQR)

9 (8–9)

9 (9–9)

9 (8–9)

7 (6–8)

<0.001

0.002

<0.001

<0.001

Birth weight (mean ± SD, g)

2839 ± 823

2996 ± 735

2693 ± 697

1474 ± 442

<0.001

0.009

<0.001

<0.001

  1. PE preeclampsia/eclampsia, NA not applicable, SD standard deviation, APGAR test appearance, pulse, grimace, activity, respiration
  2. aContinuous variables were compared between groups using ANOVA and post-hoc comparison with Scheffe test. Ordinal variables were compared with Kruskal–Wallis H test. Categorical variables were compared with x2 or Fisher’s exact test. Cut point between early and late-onset PE: 34 weeks of gestation