Infants born preterm reach similar BMI as their peers born term by adolescence, according to a meta-analysis of 253,810 individuals from 11 countries
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Article Title: Gestational age at birth and body size from infancy through adolescence: An individual participant data meta-analysis on 253,810 singletons in 16 birth cohort studies
Author Countries: Denmark, United Kingdom, Portugal, France, Spain, Italy, Canada, the Netherlands, Australia, Norway, Finland
Funding: This collaborative project received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement No. 733206 LifeCycle, Grand Recipient VWVJ; Grant Agreement No. 824989 EUCAN-Connect, Grand Recipient AMNA). Please, see S1 Appendix for list of cohort-specific funding/support. DAL is supported by the UK Medical Research Council (MC_UU_00011/6) and British Heart Foundation (CH/F/20/90003 and AA/18/7/34219). RCW is supported by UKRI Innovation Fellowship with Health Data Research UK [MR/S003959/1]. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Journal
PLoS Medicine
DOI
10.1371/journal.pmed.1004036
COI Statement
Competing interests: I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: DAL has received support from Roche Diagnostics and Medtronic in relation to biomarker research that is not related to the research presented in this paper. The other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
