Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Breastfeeding Duration
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Environmental tobacco smoke and breastfeeding duration.
The effect of smoking on breastfeeding duration was investigated in a population-based birth cohort study of 1,098 Brazilian infants. There were few losses to follow-up (3.2%) in the first 6 months. Maternal smoking was strongly associated with breastfeeding duration, even after adjustment for confounding. Compared with nonsmokers, mothers smoking 20 or more cigarettes daily presented an odds r...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0002-9262,1476-6256
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a009243