Duration of breast feeding and cognitive function: Population based cohort study

European Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 435-441

  Silva, Antônio A M ^a   Mehta, Ziyah ^b   O'Callaghan, Finbar J K ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MARANHÃO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c BRISTOL ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast feeding; Childhood; Cognitive function; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL SMOKING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33747463247     PISSN: 03932990     EISSN: 15737284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10654-006-9018-9     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Pollock JI. Long-term associations with infant feeding in a clinically advantaged population of babies. Dev Med Child Neurol 1994; 36: 429-40.
2. Taylor B, Wadsworth J. Breast feeding and child development at five years. Dev Med Child Neurol 1984; 26: 73-80.
3. Rodgers B. Feeding in infancy and later ability and attainment: A longitudinal study. Dev Med Child Neurol 1978; 20: 421-26.
4. Lucas A, Morley R, Cole TJ, Lister G, Leeson-Payne C. Breast milk and subsequent intelligence quotient in children born preterm. Lancet 1992; 339: 261-64.
5. Horwood LJ, Fergusson DM. Breastfeeding and later cognitive and academic outcomes. Pediatrics 1998; 101. http://www.pediatrics.org/cgi/content/full/101/ 1/e9.
6. Horwood LJ, Darlow BA, Mogridge N. Breast milk feeding and cognitive ability at 7-8 years. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 2001; 84: F23-7.
7. Oddy WH, Kendall GE, Blair E, et al Breast feeding and cognitive development in childhood: A prospective birth cohort study. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 2003; 17: 81-90.
8. Johnson DL, Swank PR, Howie VM, Baldwin CD, Owen M. Breast feeding and child intelligence. Psychol Rep 1996; 79: 1179-85.
9. Fergusson DM, Beautrais AL, Silva PA. Breast-feeding and cognitive development in the first seven years of life. Soc Sci Med 1982; 16: 1705-8.
10. Rogan WJ, Gladen BC. Breast-feeding and cognitive development. Early Hum Dev 1993; 31: 181-93.
11. Anderson JW, Johnstone BM, Remley DT. Breast-feeding and cognitive development: A meta-analysis. Am J Clin Nutr 1999; 70: 525-35.
12. Mortensen EL, Michaelsen KF, Sanders SA, Reinisch JM. The association between duration of breastfeeding and adult intelligence. JAMA 2002; 287: 2365-71.
13. Florey CV, Leech AM, Blackhall A. Infant feeding and mental and motor development at 18 months of age in first born singletons. Int J Epidemiol 1995; 24(Suppl. 1): S21-6.
14. Morrow-Tlucak M, Haude RH, Ernhart CB. Breast-feeding and cognitive development in the first 2 years of life. Soc Sci Med 1988; 26: 635-9.
15. Richards M, Hardy R, Wadsworth MEJ. Long-term effects of breast-feeding in a national birth cohort: Educational attainment and midlife cognitive function. Public Health Nutr 2002; 5: 631-635.
16. Elwood PC, Pickering J, Gallacher JEJ, Hughes J, Davies D. Long term effect of breast feeding: cognitive function in the Caerphilly cohort. J Epidemiol Community Health 2005; 59: 130-133.
17. Jacobson SW, Chiodo LM, Jacobson JL. Breastfeeding effects on intelligence quotient in 4- and 11-year old children. Pediatrics 1999; 103. http://www.pediatrics.org/cgi/content/full/103/5/e71.
18. Malloy MH, Berendes H. Does breast-feeding influence intelligence quotients at 9 and 10 years of age? Early Hum Dev 1998; 50: 209-17.
19. Richards M, Wadsworth M, Rahimi-Foroushani A, Hardy R, Kuh D, Paul A. Infant nutrition and cognitive development in the first offspring of a national UK birth cohort. Dev Med Child Neurol 1998; 40: 163-7.
20. Wigg NR, Tong S, McMichael AJ, Baghurst PA, Vimpani G, Roberts R. Does breastfeeding at six months predict cognitive development?. Aust N Z J Public Health 1998; 22: 232-6.
21. Lucas A, Morley R, Cole TJ, Gore SM. A randomised multicentre study of human milk versus formula and later development in preterm infants. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 1994; 70: F141-6.
22. Jain A, Concato J, Leventhal JM. How good is the evidence linking breastfeeding and intelligence? Pediatrics 2002; 109: 1044-53.
23. Drane DL, Logemann JA. A critical evaluation of the evidence of the association between type of infant feeding and cognitive development. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 2000; 14: 349-56.
24. Kline RB. Principles and practice of structural equation modeling. New York: Guilford, 1998.
25. Maruyama GM. Basics of structural equation modeling. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1998.
26. Davie R, Butler N, Goldstein H. From birth to seven: A report of the National Child Development Study. London: Longman, 1972.
27. Butler N, Despotidou S, Shepherd P. 1970 British Cohort Study ten year follow-up. London: Social Statistics Research Unit/City University, 1997.
28. Arbuckle HL, Wothke W. Amos 4.0 User's Guide. Chicago: Spss, 1999.
29. Byrne BM. Structural equation modeling with AMOS: Basic concepts, applications and programming. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2001.
30. Hoyle RH. Structural equation modeling: Concepts, issues and applications. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1995.
31. Arbuckle JL. Full-information estimation in the presence of incomplete data. In: Marcoulides GA and Schumacker RE (eds) Advanced structural equation modeling techniques. Mahwah NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996, p. 243-77.
32. Little RJA, Rubin DB. Statistical analysis with missing data. New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2002.
33. Li R, Scanlon KS, Serdula MK. The validity and reliability of maternal recall of breastfeeding practice. Nutr Rev 2005; 63: 103-10.
34. Cronbach LJ. Essentials of psychological testing. New York: Harper Collins, 1990.