Breastfeeding may protect from developing attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

Breastfeeding Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 363-367

  Mimouni Bloch, Aviva ^a,b   Kachevanskaya, Anna ^c   Mimouni, Francis Benjamin ^b,d   Shuper, Avinoam ^b,e   Raveh, Eyal ^b,e   Linder, Nehama ^b,c  

^a LOEWENSTEIN REHABILITATION HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d Dana Children's Hospital   (Israel)

^e SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIVORCE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT FEEDING; ISRAEL; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL DIABETES MELLITUS; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MATERNAL SMOKING; MEDICAL HISTORY; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY; PATERNAL AGE; PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREMATURITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SIBLING;

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROL GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MILK, HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84880882463     PISSN: 15568253     EISSN: 15568342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/bfm.2012.0145     Document Type: Article

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