About the Authors

Ashna D. Mohangoo

ashna.mohangoo@tno.nl

Affiliation Department of Child Health, TNO, Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, Leiden, The Netherlands

Béatrice Blondel

Affiliation Epidemiological Research Unit on Perinatal and Women's and Children's Health, INSERM UMRS 953, Université Pierre-et-Marie Curie Paris6, Paris, France

Mika Gissler

Affiliations Information Department, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland, Nordic School of Public Health, Gothenburg, Sweden

Petr Velebil

Affiliation Institute for the Care of Mother and Child; Perinatal Centre, Prague, Czech Republic

Alison Macfarlane

Affiliation Maternal and Child Health Research Centre; City University London, London, United Kingdom

Jennifer Zeitlin

Affiliations Epidemiological Research Unit on Perinatal and Women's and Children's Health, INSERM UMRS 953, Université Pierre-et-Marie Curie Paris6, Paris, France, UPMC University Paris 06, Paris, France

the Euro-Peristat Scientific Committee

Membership of the Euro-Peristat Scientific Committee is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ADM JZ. Performed the experiments: ADM JZ. Analyzed the data: ADM JZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ADM JZ Euro-Peristat Scientific Committee Members. Wrote the paper: ADM JZ. Substantially commented on the manuscript: BB MG PV AM. Provided the data and commented on the final draft of the manuscript: Euro-Peristat Scientific Committee Members.