The Long-Term Effects of Breastfeeding on Child and Adolescent Mental Health: A Pregnancy Cohort Study Followed for 14 Years

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 156, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 568-574

  Oddy, Wendy H ^a   Kendall, Garth E ^a,b   Li, Jianghong ^a   Jacoby, Peter ^a   Robinson, Monique ^a   de Klerk, Nicholas H ^a   Silburn, Sven R ^a   Zubrick, Stephen R ^a   Landau, Louis I ^a   Stanley, Fiona J ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR CHECKLIST; CHILD CARE; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTNATAL CARE; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ADULT; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MENTAL HEALTH; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949487801     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2009.10.020     Document Type: Article

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