2006
DOI: 10.1007/s10654-006-9018-9
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Duration of Breast Feeding and Cognitive Function: Population Based Cohort Study

Abstract: Some evidence suggests that breast feeding is weakly but positively associated with cognitive function. This association has been robust to adjustment for various confounders. The aim of this paper is to determine if duration of breast feeding is associated with cognitive function in late childhood. Data was abstracted from the 1970 British Cohort Study. 11004 liveborn white singletons born during 5-11 April 1970 in the United Kingdom were followed from birth to 10 years. Cognitive function at 10 years is the … Show more

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“…As stated above, this might explain the absence of the association within the current study. However, despite the small sample size other covariates did show significant effects as expected [52,53], which makes current findings concerning the lack of an association between BMI and cognitive ability plausible. Furthermore, a high number of children (n = 444) were lost to follow-up.…”
Section: Strengths and Limitationsmentioning
confidence: 51%
“…As stated above, this might explain the absence of the association within the current study. However, despite the small sample size other covariates did show significant effects as expected [52,53], which makes current findings concerning the lack of an association between BMI and cognitive ability plausible. Furthermore, a high number of children (n = 444) were lost to follow-up.…”
Section: Strengths and Limitationsmentioning
confidence: 51%
“…Most of these studies find (short-run) positive effects of longer breast-feeding (Kramer et al, 2008;Gómez-Sanchiz et al, 2004;Elwood et al, 2005;Richards et al, 2002) whereas other studies find no effect when controlling for family background information (Silva et al, 2006;Zhou et al, 2007). 4 The results in these studies cannot always be generalized, though.…”
Section: Previous Evidence On Child Outcomes and Parental Leavesmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…Saúde Pública, Rio de Janeiro, 26(1): 15-29, jan, 2010 Among these new methods, structural equation modeling has been recently introduced for the evaluation of causal associations in epidemiology 15,16,17 . This method consists of the simultaneous estimation of a series of multiple linear regression equations and has some advantages over linear regression.…”
Section: Métodos Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%