Pampaka, Despina http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8594-6054
Papatheodorou, Stefania I.
AlSeaidan, Mohammad
Al Wotayan, Rihab
Wright, Rosalind J.
Buring, Julie E.
Dockery, Douglas W.
Christophi, Costas A.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences
Article History
Received: 13 December 2017
Accepted: 22 June 2018
First Online: 4 July 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
: This is a secondary analysis of data collected in TRACER, a prospective birth cohort which received ethical approval from the institutional review boards of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Dasman Diabetes Institute. A written consent from the woman and her partner was required before enrolment. The participating health centers, which included public hospitals in the six governorates of Kuwait and three private clinics, also gave permission for recruitment.
: All the authors wish to confirm that there are no known conflicts of interest associated with this publication and there has been no significant financial support for this work that could have influenced its outcome.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.