Growth of exclusively breastfed and self-weaned children of Greece aged 0-36 months

Breastfeeding Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 521-525

  Patsourou, Anna ^a   Konstantinides, Theodoros ^b   Mantadakis, Elpis ^c   Tsalkidis, Aggelos ^c   Zarras, Charalambos ^d   Balaska, Athena ^e   Simopoulos, Konstantinos ^b   Chatzimichael, Athanassios ^c  

^a Breastfeeding Clinic   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^d Infectious Diseases Hospital of Thessaloniki   (Greece)

^e Microbiology Laboratory   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; FEMALE; GREECE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEANING; WEIGHT GAIN;

BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; CEPHALOMETRY; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GREECE; GROWTH; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE;

EID: 84871023276     PISSN: 15568253     EISSN: 15568342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/bfm.2011.0154     Document Type: Article

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