OBJECTIVE: We examined the effect of pre-eclampsia on fetal growth in a cohort of pregnant women delivering singleton infants. METHODS: Analyses were restricted to 155 women with pre-eclampsia and 5570 normotensive women. Logistic regression was used to estimate odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) after adjusting for confounders. We estimated ORs for very low birth weight (VLBW;