Infant feeding practice and childhood cognitive performance in South India

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 347-354

  Veena, Sargoor R ^a   Krishnaveni, Ghattu V ^a   Srinivasan, Krishnamachari ^b   Wills, Andrew K ^c   Hill, Jacqueline C ^c   Kurpad, Anura V ^b   Muthayya, Sumithra ^b   Karat, Samuel C ^a   Nalinakshi, Mahadevu ^a   Fall, Caroline H D ^c  

^a Holdsworth Memorial Hospital   (India)

^b ST JOHN'S NATIONAL ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (India)

^c SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BABY FOOD; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COGNITION; COMPLEMENTARY FOOD; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; KAUFMAN ASSESSMENT BATTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL CONCENTRATION; PARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL STATUS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANTHROPOMETRY; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POVERTY; SOCIAL CLASS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953763299     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2009.165159     Document Type: Article

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