Sentences with phrase «between duration of breast feeding»

In this study of a population of relatively high socioeconomic status, we found a positive association between duration of breast feeding and mental development, even after adjusting for maternal age, maternal education, maternal intelligence (Raven score), and smoking at the time of conception.

We found no clear association between duration of breast feeding and motor development at 13 months or 5 years of age.

There was a borderline statistically significant difference in balance scores associated with different lengths of breast feeding, whereas no association was found between duration of breast feeding and the two other motor development tests.

Aim: To examine the relation between the duration of breast feeding and morbidity as a result of respiratory illness and infection in the first year of life.

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Breastfeeding is also associated with maternal health outcomes.5 Shorter duration of lactation is associated with increased maternal breast cancer, 6 ovarian cancer, 7,8 hypertension, 9 — 11 type 2 diabetes mellitus, 9,12 and myocardial infarction (MI).9, 13 We estimate the burden of maternal disease that might be averted if more mothers were able to adhere to infant feeding recommendations, assuming a causal association between breastfeeding and maternal health.

The psychomotor index did not differ significantly between the groups (p = 0.09), although there was a trend (p < 0.05) towards increasing scores with increasing duration of breast feeding.

Multivariate relation between wheezing lower respiratory illness at 1 year of age (hospital, doctor, or clinic visits or hospital admission) and duration of partial (any) breast feeding

Most previous studies have compared breast fed children with children who were exclusively formula fed, but some studies have found that the correlation between breast feeding and cognitive ability increases with a longer duration of breast feeding.3 13 30 A Finnish study of 1163 children found a mean difference of 2.4 points on a cognitive test at 6 months of age between children breast fed for less than five months, compared to children breast fed for at least five months.10

Multivariate relation between upper respiratory infections at 1 year of age (hospital, doctor, or clinic visits, and hospital admission) and duration of breast feeding

Multivariate relation between wheezing lower respiratory illness at 1 year of age (hospital, doctor, or clinic visits or hospital admission) and duration of predominant breast feeding