Quality of growth in exclusively breast-fed infants in the first six months of life: An Italian study

Pediatric Research

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 542-544

  Roggero, Paola ^a   Giannì, Maria L ^a   Orsi, Anna ^a   Piemontese, Pasqua ^a   Amato, Orsola ^a   Liotto, Nadia ^a   Morlacchi, Laura ^a   Taroni, Francesca ^a   Fields, David A ^b   Catalano, Patrick M ^c   Mosca, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD GROWTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INFANT; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PLETHYSMOGRAPH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAMPLE SIZE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ITALY; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 78649391452     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: 15300447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1203/PDR.0b013e3181f85a20     Document Type: Article

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