Association between breastfeeding and intelligence, educational attainment, and income at 30 years of age: A prospective birth cohort study from Brazil

The Lancet Global Health

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2015, Pages e199-e205

  Victora, Cesar G ^a   Horta, Bernardo Lessa ^a   de Mola, Christian Loret ^a   Quevedo, Luciana ^b   Pinheiro, Ricardo Tavares ^b   Gigante, Denise P ^a   Gonçalves, Helen ^a   Barros, Fernando C ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAZIL; BREAST FEEDING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INCOME; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MATERNAL SMOKING; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAZIL; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84925270667     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2214109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(15)70002-1     Document Type: Article

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