Morbidity and mortality associated with pre-eclampsia at two tertiary care hospitals in Sri Lanka.

Aim: To report the occurrence of morbidity and mortality associated with carefully phenotyped pre-eclampsia in a sample of nulliparous Sinhalese women with strictly defined disease.

Methods: A phenotyping database of 180 nulliparous women with pre-eclampsia and 180 nulliparous normotensive pregnant women who were recruited for a study into genetics of pre-eclampsia was analyzed.

Results: Women who developed pre-eclampsia had significantly higher systolic blood pressure (SBP; P = 0.