Does breastfeeding protect against childhood overweight? Hong Kong's 'Children of 1997' birth cohort

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 297-305

  Kwok, Man Ki ^a   Schooling, C Mary ^a   Lam, Tai Hing ^a   Leung, Gabriel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Breastfeeding; Childhood overweight; Cohort study

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; BREASTFEEDING; CHILD CARE; COHORT ANALYSIS; MORBIDITY; PREGNANCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; WEIGHT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD GROWTH; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL SMOKING; MORBIDITY; OBESITY; PARITY; PASSIVE SMOKING; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; MORPHOMETRICS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CHINA; HONG KONG;

BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; OVERWEIGHT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 77952303691     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyp274     Document Type: Article

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