McVey, Marco K.
Geraghty, Aisling A.
O’Brien, Eileen C.
McKenna, Malachi J.
Kilbane, Mark T.
Crowley, Rachel K.
Twomey, Patrick J.
McAuliffe, Fionnuala M.
Article History
Received: 16 June 2019
Revised: 5 September 2019
Accepted: 6 September 2019
First Online: 1 November 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The ROLO and ROLO Kids studies were carried out in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975 as revised in 1983 with institutional ethical approval from the National Maternity Hospital in November 2006 for the original ROLO study and for the ROLO Kids 6 month and 2 year follow-up in May 2009. The Current Controlled Trials registration number for the ROLO study was ISRCTN54392969. The ROLO Kids 5-year follow-up and DXA scanning AddOn were approved by the Ethics (Medical Research) Committee in Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Dublin, REC reference: GEN/279/12.
: Informed written maternal consent was obtained during pregnancy and at each subsequent follow-up.