Infant BMI peak, breastfeeding, and body composition at age 3 y
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Infant BMI peak, breastfeeding, and body composition at age 3 y.
BACKGROUND With the increasing focus on obesity, growth patterns in infancy and early childhood have gained much attention. Although the adiposity rebound has been in focus because of a shown association with adult obesity, not much has been published about the infant peak in body mass index (BMI). OBJECTIVE This study links age and BMI at infant peak to duration of breastfeeding and body com...
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عنوان ژورنال: The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0002-9165,1938-3207
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.114.092957