Socio-demographic associations with digit and pacifier sucking at 15 months of age and possible associations with infant infection

Early Human Development

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 137-148

  North Stone, Kate ^a   Fleming, Peter ^b   Golding, Jean ^a  

^a Unit of Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology   (United Kingdom)

^b St Michael's Hill   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Digit sucking; Morbidity; Non nutritive sucking; Pacifier use

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINGER; HABIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INFECTION; LIFESTYLE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUCKING;

EID: 0033739854     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3782(00)00113-4     Document Type: Article

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