Zheng, Tao
Ye, Weiping
Wang, Xipeng
Li, Xiaoyong
Zhang, Jun
Little, Julian
Zhou, Lixia
Zhang, Lin http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2728-4715
Funding for this research was provided by:
Shanghai Hospital Development Center (SHDC12016204)
School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (15QT12)
Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (15411953200)
Article History
Received: 24 September 2018
Accepted: 24 June 2019
First Online: 19 July 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All participants in this study provided written informed consent before recruitment, and the Institutional Review Board of Xinhua hospital approved this project. A total of 4771 study participants were recruited in two ways. First, there was retrospective recruitment of consecutive 2343 pregnant women in the final analysis delivered from Jan 2015 to Jun 2016 (XHEC-C-2013-001). Second, 2428 women in the final model were recruited prospectively into a hospital-based birth cohort, the Early Life Plan (ELP) study, between Jun 2016 and Dec 2017 (XHEC-C-2016-392). The overall study combined by the two groups was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Xinhua hospital (XHEC-C-2018-085).
: Not applicable.
: The authors did not report any potential conflicts of interest.