Risk Factors
- Family history of pre-eclampsia
- Pre-existing hypertension
- Renal disease
- Diabetes mellitus
- Obesity
- Placental abnormalities:
- 1. Hyperplacentosis: Excessive exposure to chorionic villi.
- 2. Placental ischemia.
- Multiple gestation (twins or triplets, etc.)
- Age 35 or greater
- Adolescent pregnancy
- New paternity
- African American race
- Thrombophilias (anti-phospholoipid syndrome, protein C/S deficiency, factor V Leiden)
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