Tovo-Rodrigues, Luciana
Carpena, Marina Xavier
Maruyama, Jessica Mayumi
Gonzalez, Andrea
Barros, Aluisio J.D.
Santos, Iná S.
Oliveira, Isabel
Tormen, Alexia
Schuch, Jaqueline Bohrer
Matijasevich, Alicia
Murray, Joseph
Funding for this research was provided by:
Wellcome Trust (210735_A_18_Z)
Article History
Received: 16 April 2026
Accepted: 29 September 2026
First Online: 9 October 2026
Declarations
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.
Ethics approval and consent to participate: The study protocol and all follow-ups of the 2004 Pelotas Birth Cohort were approved by the Ethics Committee Board of the Medicine School at the Federal University of Pelotas and by the Ethics Committee Board of the University of São Paulo, in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and national ethical guidelines. At all follow-ups, all mothers or legal guardians received and signed written informed consent forms, and all adolescents received age-appropriate information and provided written informed assent at ages 15 and 17. Thus, all participants received the necessary information and provided explicit written informed consent to participate.