Breastfeeding, Childhood Asthma, and Allergic Disease

Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 26-36

  Oddy, Wendy H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Allergic disease; Breastfeeding; Childhood asthma

Indexed keywords

POLYAMINE; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; PROBIOTIC AGENT; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ALLERGIC DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; CHILD; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MILK; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CONTENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); FEMALE; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION; MALE; NEWBORN; TIME FACTOR;

ASTHMA; BREAST FEEDING; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MILK, HUMAN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 85019848944     PISSN: 02506807     EISSN: 14219697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000457920     Document Type: Article

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