Correction to: Effects of early feeding on growth velocity and overweight/obesity in a cohort of HIV unexposed South African infants and children
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[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1186/s13006-015-0041-x.].
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Effects of early feeding on growth velocity and overweight/obesity in a cohort of HIV unexposed South African infants and children
BACKGROUND South Africa has the highest prevalence of overweight/obesity in Sub-Saharan Africa. Assessing the effect of modifiable factors such as early infant feeding on growth velocity and overweight/obesity is therefore important. This paper aimed to assess the effect of infant feeding in the transitional period (12 weeks) on 12-24 week growth velocity amongst HIV unexposed children using WH...
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