Formula feeding is associated with increased hospital admissions due to infections among infants younger than 6 months in Manila, Philippines

Journal of Human Lactation

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 19-25

  Hengstermann, Susanne ^a   Mantaring, Jacinto Blas V ^b   Sobel, Howard L ^a   Borja, Vicenta E ^c   Basilio, Juanita ^c   Iellamo, Alessandro D ^a   Nyunt U, Soe ^a  

^a The World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific philippines   (Philippines)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES MANILA   (Philippines)

^c DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Breastfeeding; Diarrhea; Hospitalization; Infants; Infectious diseases; Neonatal sepsis; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BREAST MILK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; INFANTILE DIARRHEA; MALE; NEWBORN; PHILIPPINES; PNEUMONIA; RISK;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DIARRHEA, INFANTILE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FORMULA; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MILK, HUMAN; ODDS RATIO; PHILIPPINES; PNEUMONIA;

EID: 77649265407     PISSN: 08903344     EISSN: 15525732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0890334409344078     Document Type: Article

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