Brazilian Maternal and Child Nutrition Consortium: establishment, data harmonization and basic characteristics.

ABSTRACT: Pooled data analysis in the field of maternal and child nutrition rarely incorporates data from low- and middle-income countries and existing studies lack a description of the methods used to harmonize the data and to assess heterogeneity. We describe the creation of the Brazilian Maternal and Child Nutrition Consortium dataset, from multiple pooled longitudinal studies, having gestational weight gain (GWG) as an example. Investigators of the eligible studies published from 1990 to 2018 were invited to participate. We conducted consistency analysis, identified outliers, and assessed heterogeneity for GWG. Outliers identification considered the longitudinal nature of the data. Heterogeneity was performed adjusting multilevel models. We identified 68 studies and invited 59 for this initiativ

SUBMITTER: Carrilho TRB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7483530 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature