Breastfeeding During Early Infancy is Associated with Higher Weight-Based World Health Organization Anthropometry
UMass Chan Affiliations
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and ImmunologyDocument Type
Journal ArticlePublication Date
2013-06-28Keywords
Breastfeedinginfant
anthropometry
weight
nutrition
bottle-feeding
Clinical Epidemiology
Epidemiology
Infectious Disease
Maternal and Child Health
Pediatrics
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The World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Committee on Physical Status: The Use and Interpretation of Anthropometry established reference anthropometric standards for the growth of healthy infants and children. As part of a prospective clinical study of dengue virus infections in infants, we measured the length and weight of healthy infants in San Pablo, Laguna, Philippines at two scheduled study visits. We examined the correlation between breastfeeding and WHO anthropometric z scores during early infancy in San Pablo, Laguna, Philippines. We found that breastfeeding status and the frequency of breastfeeding during early infancy positively correlated with weight-based WHO anthropometric z scores.Source
Libraty DH, Capeding RZ, Obcena A, Brion JD, Tallo V. Breastfeeding During Early Infancy is Associated with Higher Weight-Based World Health Organization Anthropometry. Open Pediatr Med Journal. 2013 Jun 28;7. doi:10.2174/1874309920130610001. Link to article on publisher's siteDOI
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