McBride, Nancy https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4439-4710
Yousefi, Paul
White, Sara L.
Poston, Lucilla
Farrar, Diane
Sattar, Naveed
Nelson, Scott M.
Wright, John
Mason, Dan
Suderman, Matthew
Relton, Caroline
Lawlor, Deborah A.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute for Health Research (RP-PG-0407-10452)
Medical Research Council (MR/L002477/1)
Chief Scientist Office, Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorate (CZB/A/680)
Tommy's Baby Charity (SC039280)
Article History
Received: 3 July 2020
Accepted: 19 October 2020
First Online: 23 November 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approval for the study was granted by the Bradford National Health Service Research Ethics Committee (ref 06/Q1202/48). UPBEAT is registered with Current Controlled Trials (ISRCTN89971375), and approvals were obtained from the UK research ethics committee (ref 09/H0802/5). Local research and development departments in participating centres approved the participation of their respective centres. All women in both studies provided written informed consent.
: Not applicable
: DAL has received support from Medtronic Ltd. and Roche Diagnostics for biomarker research unrelated to those presented in this paper. DAL is on the editorial board for BMC Medicine.