The relation between cesarean birth and child cognitive development

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Polidano, Cain ^a   Zhu, Anna ^a   Bornstein, Joel C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST FEEDING; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILD; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTESTINE FLORA; MALE; MATERNAL WELFARE; NONHUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; VAGINAL DELIVERY; ACADEMIC SUCCESS; AUSTRALIA; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ACADEMIC SUCCESS; AUSTRALIA; BIOMARKERS; BREAST FEEDING; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MATERNAL HEALTH; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 85029323430     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-10831-y     Document Type: Article

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