About the Authors

Rebecca Eckler

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Bahi Fayek

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Women’s Health Research Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Erica Won

Roles Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Sabina Dobrer

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Women’s Health Research Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Sarka Lisonkova

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Women’s Health Research Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Paul J. Yong

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Women’s Health Research Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

KS Joseph

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Women’s Health Research Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Mohamed A. Bedaiwy

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

mohamed.bedaiwy@cw.bc.ca

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Women’s Health Research Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

P.J.Y: Research grants from Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Grant. - M.A.B: Research grants from Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and Ferring Pharmaceutical. He is on the advisory board for AbbVie, Pfizer, and Baxter. - Other authors do not have any declarations of interest. These competing interests do not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.