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dc.title | Effect of breast-feeding on weight retention at 3 and 6 months postpartum: Data from the North Carolina WIC Programme | |
dc.contributor.author | Krause, K.M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Lovelady, C.A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Peterson, B.L. | |
dc.contributor.author | Chowdhury, N. | |
dc.contributor.author | Stbye, T. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-11-26T08:27:54Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-11-26T08:27:54Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010-12 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Krause, K.M., Lovelady, C.A., Peterson, B.L., Chowdhury, N., Stbye, T. (2010-12). Effect of breast-feeding on weight retention at 3 and 6 months postpartum: Data from the North Carolina WIC Programme. Public Health Nutrition 13 (12) : 2019-2026. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980010001503 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 13689800 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/110043 | |
dc.description.abstract | Objective Pregnancy-related weight retention can contribute to obesity, and breast-feeding may facilitate postpartum weight loss. We investigated the effect of breast-feeding on postpartum weight retention.Design A retrospective follow-up study of weight retention, compared in women who were fully breast-feeding, combining breast-feeding with formula-feeding (mixed feeding), or formula-feeding at 3 months (n 14 330) or 6 months (n 4922) postpartum, controlling for demographic and weight-related covariates using multiple linear regression.Setting The North Carolina Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC).Subjects Participants in the North Carolina WIC Programme who delivered a baby between 1996 and 2004.Results In covariate-adjusted analyses, there was no association between breast-feeding and weight retention at 3 months postpartum. At 6 months postpartum, as compared to formula-feeders, mean weight retention was 084 kg lower in mixed feeders (95 % CI 039, 129; P = 00002) and 138 kg lower in full breast-feeders (95 % CI 089, 187; P 00001).Conclusions Breast-feeding was inversely associated with weight retention at 6 months postpartum in this large, racially diverse sample of low-income women. Further, full breast-feeding had a larger protective effect than did breast-feeding combined with formula-feeding. Copyright © 2010 The Authors. | |
dc.description.uri | http://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1368980010001503 | |
dc.source | Scopus | |
dc.subject | Breast-feeding | |
dc.subject | Obesity | |
dc.subject | Postpartum | |
dc.subject | Weight | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.contributor.department | DUKE-NUS GRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL S'PORE | |
dc.description.doi | 10.1017/S1368980010001503 | |
dc.description.sourcetitle | Public Health Nutrition | |
dc.description.volume | 13 | |
dc.description.issue | 12 | |
dc.description.page | 2019-2026 | |
dc.description.coden | PHNUF | |
dc.identifier.isiut | 000284709000011 | |
Appears in Collections: | Staff Publications |
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