Ethnoracial disparities in childhood growth trajectories in Brazil: a longitudinal nationwide study of four million children.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThe present study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Collective Health Institute of the Federal University of Bahia (reference number 41695415.0.0000.5030) and the School of Nutrition, Federal University of Bahia (reference number 67205423.6.0000.5023). The need for informed consent was waived by the ethics committee/Institutional Review Board of the Collective Health Institute of the Federal University of Bahia (reference number 41695415.0.0000.5030) and the School of Nutrition, Federal University of Bahia (reference number 67205423.6.0000.5023), due to the exclusive use of secondary data from official information systems in accordance with the National Research Ethics Commission of the National Health Council standards, resolution 466 of December 2012. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"Funding This study received funding from the Brazilian Science Ministry, Department of Science & Technology (MS-SCTIE-Decit/CNPq: grant number 25000.148278/2022–10) and the National Council of Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq: grant number 442948/2019–0). This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – Brasil (CAPES) – Finance Code 001. EPS is funded by the Wellcome Trust [grant number 225925/Z/22/Z]. HBMS is funded by the FAPESB. The study also used resources from the Centre for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), which receives funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Wellcome Trust [Grant Number: [202912/Z/16/Z], the Health Surveillance Secretariat of the Ministry of Health and the Secretariat of Science and Technology of the State of Bahia (SECTI-BA). Supporting source had no involvement regarding the publication of this paper."