A collaborative grouping of 8 international studies formed around the research question ‘ What is the association between physical activity during pregnancy on neonatal adiposity? Each study set up their local server, data harmonisation algorithms were developed and coded, and federated analyses have been completed.
The scientific results have now been published:
- Associations between maternal physical activity in early and late pregnancy and offspring birth size: remote federated individual level meta-analysis from eight cohort studies. S Pastorino et al. BJOG 2019 doi: 10.1111/1471-0528.15476.