Breast feeding and obesity
- 11 December 1999
- Vol. 319 (7224) , 1576
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.319.7224.1576
Abstract
# Relation may be accounted for by social factors {#article-title-2} EDITOR—In their paper on breast feeding and obesity von Kries et al report that, in a large sample of children (n=13 345) who were aged 6 in 1997, the lowest prevalence of overweight and obesity at that age was in those who had been breast fed for longest.1 By contrast, analysing data from our national longitudinal study of children born in 1946 (n=3731)2 in a comparable way, we found no significant relation of breast feeding with overweight or obesity at age 6 and a suggestion that the lowest prevalence of overweight and obesity at that age was associated with the shortest period of breast feeding (table). View this table: Duration of breast feeding and prevalence of being overweight* …Keywords
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