Chen, Ling-Wei https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2661-8752
Aubert, Adrien M.
Shivappa, Nitin
Bernard, Jonathan Y.
Mensink-Bout, Sara M.
Geraghty, Aisling A.
Mehegan, John
Suderman, Matthew
Polanska, Kinga
Hanke, Wojciech
Jankowska, Agnieszka
Relton, Caroline L.
Crozier, Sarah R.
Harvey, Nicholas C.
Cooper, Cyrus
Hanson, Mark
Godfrey, Keith M.
Gaillard, Romy
Duijts, Liesbeth
Heude, Barbara
Hébert, James R.
McAuliffe, Fionnuala M.
Kelleher, Cecily C.
Phillips, Catherine M.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Joint Programming Initiative A healthy diet for a healthy life (696295 (Biomarkers for Nutrition and Health))
Science Foundation Ireland (SFI/16/ERA-HDHL/3360)
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (ERA-HDHL Biomarkers: BBSRC: BB/P028179/1 and BB/P028187/1)
National Centre for Research and Development (ERA-HDHL/01/ALPHABET/1/2017)
the ZonMW The Netherlands (no 529051014; 2017)
French National Agency of Research (reference AnrR16227KK)
Article History
Received: 28 May 2020
Accepted: 11 January 2021
First Online: 22 February 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All studies have been approved by the respective local ethical review committees and written consent was obtained from all mothers. Specific cohort approvals are as follows: ALSPAC: ALSPAC Ethics and Law Committee (IRB00003312) and Local Research Ethics Committees; EDEN: Ethics Committee (CCPPRB) and CNIL (Commission Nationale Informatique et Liberté), the French data privacy institution; Generation R: Medical Ethical Committee of the Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam; Lifeways: University College Dublin Research Ethics Committee and St. Vincent’s University Hospital Research Ethics Committee; REPRO_PL: Ethical Committee of the Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Łódź, Poland (Decisions No. 7/2007, 3/2008 and 22/2014); ROLO: Ethics Committee of the National Maternity Hospital, Dublin, Ireland; SWS: Southampton and South West Hampshire Research Ethics Committee, ALSPAC Law and Ethics Committee, and the Local Research Ethics Committees.
: Not applicable
: Dr. James R. Hébert owns controlling interest in Connecting Health Innovations LLC (CHI), a company that has licensed the right to his invention of the dietary inflammatory index (DII) from the University of South Carolina in order to develop computer and smart phone applications for patient counselling and dietary intervention in clinical settings. Professor Keith M Godfrey has received reimbursement for speaking at conferences sponsored by companies selling nutritional products and is part of an academic consortium that has received research funding from Abbott Nutrition, Nestec, BenevolentAI Bio Ltd. and Danone. Dr. Nitin Shivappa is an employee of CHI. Other authors declare no conflict of interest.