Delahunt, Anna
Killeen, Sarah Louise
O’Brien, Eileen C.
Geraghty, Aisling A.
O’Reilly, Sharleen L. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3547-6634
McDonnell, Ciara M.
Cushion, Rosemary
Mehegan, John
McAuliffe, Fionnuala M. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3477-6494
Article History
Received: 1 December 2023
Revised: 25 March 2024
Accepted: 28 March 2024
First Online: 4 April 2024
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The ROLO longitudinal birth cohort 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 primary ROLO study and for the follow-up at 6 months and 2-year in May 2009. The Current Controlled Trials registration number for the ROLO study was ISRCTN54392969. The ROLO Kids 5-year follow-up were approved by the Ethics (Medical Research) Committee in Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Dublin, REC reference: GEN/279/12 and the 9–11-year-old follow-up by the office of Research Ethics Committee, University College Dublin (LS-15-06-Geraghty-McAuliffe).
: Informed written maternal consent was obtained during pregnancy and at each subsequent follow-up.