Viana, Mateus Oliveira https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5189-3297
Lima, Janielle Ferreira de Brito https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3027-2763
Abreu, Thaysa Gois Trinta https://orcid.org/0009-0002-3426-4584
e Silva Filho, Murilo Freitas https://orcid.org/0009-0004-2569-3058
Gomes, Maria Luziene de Sousa https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8583-0959
Simões, Vanda Maria Ferreira https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8351-1348
Batista, Rosângela Fernandes Lucena https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1529-0165
Funding for this research was provided by:
Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel of Brazil (Funding code 001)
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e ao Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico do Maranhão (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e ao Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico do Maranhão)
Department of Science and Technology (DECIT) of the Ministry of Health/National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) of Brazil (400943/2013-1)
Article History
Received: 31 October 2025
Revised: 21 December 2025
Accepted: 12 January 2026
First Online: 11 February 2026
Declarations
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: This study is part of the RPS Birth Cohort Consortium (Ribeirão Preto, Pelotas, and São Luís). The São Luís birth cohort was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the University Hospital of the Federal University of Maranhão (protocol no. 310/2016, CAAE: 57293416.6.1001.5086), in compliance with Resolution No. 466/2012 of the Brazilian National Health Council [ ]. Written informed consent was obtained from all participants or their legal guardians prior to enrollment, and assent was obtained from adolescents when applicable. All procedures were conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and national research committees and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments.
: All authors have read and approved the final version of the manuscript and consent to its publication in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine. Participants and their legal guardians provided written informed consent for the publication of anonymized data and aggregate findings. No identifiable personal information is included in this article.
: The authors declare no conflicts of interest related to the research, authorship, or publication of this article.