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Community child health, public health, and epidemiology
Infant feeding and obesity through the lifecourse
  1. T J Parsons1,
  2. C Power1,
  3. O Manor2
  1. 1Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London, UK
  2. 2School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Hebrew University, Hadassah, POB 12272, Jerusalem 91120, Israel
  1. Correspondence to:
    Dr T J Parsons, Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK;
    t.parsons{at}ich.ucl.ac.uk

Abstract

In the 1958 British birth cohort (n = 12 857 at age 7), breast feeding and BMI were unrelated in childhood. Breast feeding was protective against increased BMI at ages 16 and 33 years in females, and at 33 years in males, but this effect was markedly reduced and no longer significant after adjustment for confounding factors.

  • body mass index
  • breast feeding
  • cohort study
  • obesity

https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.88.9.793

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      Archives of Disease in Childhood 2003; 88 745-745 Published Online First: 22 Aug 2003. doi: 10.1136/adc.88.9.745-a