Establishing non-fasting reference values for plasma lipids levels based on age, sex, and puberty stage in a French-Canadian pediatric population.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThe study received ethical approval from the Ethics Committees of both universities (University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, and Columbia University, New York, USA). Informed consent was obtained from both the children and their parents/legal guardians for all child participants and their parents/legal guardians. Consent for publicationThe authors confirm that participants consent have been obtained for the publication of this manuscript. Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"Funding The GESTE study is supported by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences grant (#R01ES027845). Furthermore, SB was supported by a master’s scholarship from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Sherbrooke. The funding organizations had no role in the design and conduct of the study, collection, analysis, and interpretation of the data, or the submission of this manuscript for publication."