The role of infant feeding practices in the explanation for ethnic differences in infant growth: The Amsterdam Born Children and their Development study

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 106, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1592-1601

  De Hoog, Marieke L A ^a,b   Van Eijsden, Manon ^b   Stronks, Karien ^a   Gemke, Reinoud J B J ^c   Vrijkotte, Tanja G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b DEPARTMENT OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amsterdam Born Children and their Development study; Ethnicity; Excessive weight gain; Infant feeding; Infants

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT FEEDING; MALE; MOROCCO; NETHERLANDS; NORMAL HUMAN; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

COHORT STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; GROWTH; HUMANS; INFANT FOOD; INFANT, NEWBORN; NETHERLANDS;

EID: 80755152970     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: 14752662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0007114511002327     Document Type: Article

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