Does breastfeeding protect against childhood overweight? Hong Kong's 'Children of 1997' birth cohort | Zendy

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Does breastfeeding protect against childhood overweight? Hong Kong's 'Children of 1997' birth cohort

Author(s) -

Man Ki Kwok,

C. Mary Schooling,

TH Lam,

GM Leung

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyp274

Subject(s) - breastfeeding , medicine , overweight , body mass index , birth weight , demography , cohort study , confidence interval , confounding , breast feeding , population , prospective cohort study , cohort , pediatrics , gestational age , pregnancy , environmental health , sociology , biology , genetics

Observational studies from mainly Western settings suggest breastfeeding may protect against childhood adiposity; however, breastfeeding and adiposity share social patterning potentially generating confounding, making evidence from other settings valuable.

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