“…The association between higher BMI and risk of preeclampsia reported in our study is consistent with that of previous studies based on both Western populations [ 17 – 21 , 23 , 26 , 28 – 30 , 32 – 36 , 38 ], and Asian populations [ 16 , 22 , 24 , 25 , 27 , 31 , 37 , 67 , 68 ]. Among the few previous studies that investigated the association between pre-pregnancy BMI and preeclampsia subtypes [ 14 , 19 , 30 , 38 ], their results suggested that overweight/obesity before pregnancy increased the risk of S-PE [ 14 , 19 ], M-PE [ 30 ], LOPE [ 30 , 38 ], but not EOPE [ 14 , 19 , 30 , 38 ].…”