KHLim, Limburg Catholic University College, PHL University College, Department of Healthcare Research, Hasselt, the Departments of Psychology and Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven, the Center of Human Genetics, University Hospitals Leuven, and the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology—Division of Mother & Child, University Hospitals, Leuven, and the Department of Welfare, Public Health and Family, Flemish Government, and the Flemish Study Center for Perinatal Epidemiology, Brussels, Belgium; and the Department of Psychology, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
Corresponding author: Roland Devlieger, PhD, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospitals Leuven, Herestraat, 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium; e-mail: [email protected].
The Study Center for Perinatal Epidemiology is financed and commissioned by the Flemish Centre for Care and Health (Agentschap Zorg en Gezondheid). Annick Bogaerts was supported by a PWO project from Flanders. Bea R. H. Van den Bergh is funded by The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO; Brain and Cognition Program; 2008-2012) and by the EU 7th Framework Program (FP7-Health-2011; BrainAGE; 2012-2017). Roland Devlieger is senior clinical researcher for FWO Flanders (2010-2015).
The authors thank the Flemish Study Center for Perinatal Epidemiology for their contribution in providing all the data as well as the University of Ghent for matching the data; Ir. Guy and Evelyne Martens for coordinating the study; and Marianne Mead for her review of the paper and her linguistic advice.
Presented in part at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation, March 20–23, 2013, Orlando, Florida.
Financial Disclosure The authors did not report any potential conflicts of interest.
