Main findings
When women were asked to assess their cognitive function subjectively over the six months prior to delivery (corresponding to early pregnancy), there were no differences in the overall or subdomain scores for any of the groups. At discharge, after delivery, women with pre-eclampsia complicated by pulmonary oedema or eclampsia demonstrated lower scores on the objective MoCA assessment for cognitive function when compared to normotensive women but the difference was attenuated for women with pulmonary oedema after adjustment for confounders. Women with pre-eclampsia without severe features showed no difference on MoCA scores when compared to normotensive women.