How good is the evidence linking breastfeeding and intelligence?

Pediatrics

Volumn 109, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1044-1053

  Jain, Anjali ^a,b   Concato, John ^a,b,c   Leventhal, John M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Breastfeeding; Cognition; Infant feeding; Intelligence; Meta analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BREAST FEEDING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RESEARCH DESIGN; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 0036260731     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.109.6.1044     Document Type: Article

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