Open AccessAssociation of cesarean delivery with anemia in infants and children in 2 large longitudinal Chinese birth cohorts
Author(s) -
Hongtian Li,
Leonardo Trasande,
Li Zhu,
Rongwei Ye,
Yubo Zhou,
Jianmeng Liu
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
american journal of clinical nutrition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.608
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1938-3207
pISSN - 0002-9165
DOI - 10.3945/ajcn.114.092585
Subject(s) - medicine , cohort , anemia , pregnancy , obstetrics , cohort study , hemoglobin , vaginal delivery , pediatrics , logistic regression , cesarean delivery , genetics , biology
Cesarean delivery may reduce placental-fetal transfusion and thus increase the risk of early childhood anemia compared with vaginal delivery, but this notion has not been carefully studied in longitudinal cohorts.
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