Association between total duration of breastfeeding and iron deficiency

Pediatrics

Volumn 131, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Maguire, Jonathon L ^a,b,c,d   Salehi, Leila ^e   Birken, Catherine S ^c,d   Carsley, Sarah ^c   Mamdani, Muhammad ^b,e   Thorpe, Kevin E ^b,e   Lebovic, Gerald ^b   Khovratovich, Marina ^c   Parkin, Patricia C ^c,d  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breastfeeding duration; Cross sectional studies; Iron deficiency; Serum ferritin

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT FEEDING; IRON DEFICIENCY; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; IRON STORAGE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URBAN POPULATION;

BREASTFEEDING DURATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; IRON DEFICIENCY; SERUM FERRITIN;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; ANTHROPOMETRY; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; IRON; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84877069252     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2012-2465     Document Type: Article

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