“…Consistent with previous reports, although PE and GDM have distinctive clinical and pathophysiologic characteristics, they share some important similarities: both conditions develop during pregnancy, and the clinical syndromes disappear after delivery. Many risk factors such as obesity, elevated blood pressure, dyslipidemia, insulin resistance, and hyperglycemia are associated with both PE and GDM; and patients with a history of PE or GDM have increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease compared to women without such a history [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22]. …”