Breastfeeding is associated with reduced childhood hospitalization: Evidence from a scottish birth cohort (1997-2009)

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 620-625.e4

  Ajetunmobi, Omotomilola M ^a   Whyte, Bruce ^b   Chalmers, James ^a,c   Tappin, David M ^d   Wolfson, Linda ^e   Fleming, Michael ^a   MacDonald, Alison ^f   Wood, Rachael ^a   Stockton, Diane L ^a  

^a INFORMATION SERVICES DIVISION   (United Kingdom)

^b Glasgow Centre for Population Health   (United Kingdom)

^c NHS EDUCATION FOR SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^e NHS GREATER GLASGOW AND CLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^f NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; ASTHMA; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHILDHOOD INJURY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DENTAL CARIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECZEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OTITIS MEDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; UNITED KINGDOM; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITALIZATION; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; MATERNAL AGE; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; SCOTLAND; TRENDS;

BREAST FEEDING; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTION; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SCOTLAND;

EID: 84924546751     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: 10976833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2014.11.013     Document Type: Article

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