Menezes, Ana Maria Baptista
Oliveira, Paula Duarte http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5495-3259
Gonçalves, Helen
Oliveira, Isabel O.
Assunção, Maria Cecilia F.
Tovo-Rodrigues, Luciana
Ferreira, Gustavo Dias
Wehrmeister, Fernando César
Funding for this research was provided by:
Wellcome Trust (086974/Z/08/Z)
Article History
Received: 3 July 2018
Accepted: 22 November 2018
First Online: 30 November 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All the cohort follow-up projects were approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Federal University of Pelotas Medical School after 1996 (ethical approval for studies was not required in Brazil until the referred year). At the 18 and 22 follow-ups, the projects were approved under the protocols 05/11 and 1.250.366, respectively.All participants, or their parents or caregivers in the follow-ups before the participants reached 18 years, signed a written consent form in each follow-up and dataset was anonymized for the analyses.
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