Proteinuria may play a role in the progression of gestational hypertension to severe forms of preeclampsia associated with subsequent maternal complications and extremely-low-birth-weight babies.

More than one third of women had recurrent GBS colonization in a subsequent pregnancy. These findings should assist clinicians in counseling women with GBS colonization about their risk for recurrence, the importance of appropriate prenatal GBS screening in a subsequent pregnancy, and intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis for unknown GBS status.