Infant feeding and growth: Can we answer the causal question?

Epidemiology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 790-794

  Kramer, Michael S ^a,b   Moodie, Erica E M ^b   Platt, Robert W ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BELARUS; BODY SIZE; BRAZIL; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING EDUCATION; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CHILD GROWTH; CHILD HEALTH; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; GHANA; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTHER; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NORWAY; OBESITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FOOD; INFANT, NEWBORN; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBESITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84867529010     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e31826cc0e9     Document Type: Article

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