Breastfeeding and childhood obesity: Shift of the entire BMI distribution or only the upper parts?

Obesity

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2730-2733

  Beyerlein, Andreas ^a   Toschke, André M ^b   Von Kries, Rüdiger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMOKING; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TELEVISION;

BODY MASS INDEX; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INFANT; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; OVERWEIGHT; PREGNANCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMOKING; TELEVISION;

EID: 58149286342     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2008.432     Document Type: Article

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