Commentary: Effect of initial breastfeeding on cardiovascular risk in later life - a perspective from lower-middle-income countries

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 62-64

  Owen, Christopher G ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; BREAST FEEDING; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDUCATION; ETHNICITY; HUMAN; NOTE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY COMPOSITION; BRAZIL; BREAST FEEDING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; GUATEMALA; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT FOOD; MALE; OBESITY; PHILIPPINES; RISK FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79952052486     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyq194     Document Type: Note

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