Breastfeeding duration and cognitive, language and motor development at 18 months of age: Rhea mother-child cohort in Crete, Greece

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 232-239

  Leventakou, Vasiliki ^a   Roumeliotaki, Theano ^a   Koutra, Katerina ^a   Vassilaki, Maria ^a   Mantzouranis, Evangelia ^a   Bitsios, Panos ^a   Kogevinas, Manolis ^b,c,d,e   Chatzi, Leda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

^d CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^e NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; BREASTFEEDING; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; LANGUAGE; NEUROLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; CRETE [GREECE]; GREECE;

RHEA;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BABY FOOD; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERVIEW; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATERNAL AGE; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FOOD; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MOTOR SKILLS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATERNAL AGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84924533275     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2013-202500     Document Type: Article

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