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Socio-economic status and maternal BMI are associated with duration of breast-feeding of Norwegian infants.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Bjørset, Vilde Kristin Helle, Christine Hillesund, E. R. Øverby, Nina Cecilie |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Abstract | OBJECTIVE To explore whether there is an association between socio-economic status and maternal BMI and duration of any breast-feeding/exclusive breast-feeding among Norwegian infants at 4 and 5 months of age in 2016. DESIGN Cross-sectional design. Baseline data from a randomized controlled trial. Data concerning breast-feeding were collected by FFQ. SETTING Recruitment was done at child health-care centres and through Facebook in 2016. In total, 960 infants/parents registered for participating in the study Early Food for Future Health. SUBJECTS A total of 715 infant/mother dyads completed the questionnaire when the child was between 5 and 6 months old. RESULTS At 5 months of age, 81·0 % of infants were breast-fed and 16·4 % were exclusively breast-fed. Infants of highly educated mothers had higher odds of being breast-fed at 5 months compared with infants of mothers with less education. Infants of multiparous mothers had higher odds of being exclusively breast-fed for the first 5 months compared with infants of mothers with one child. Infants of mothers with overweight/obesity had reduced odds of both being breast-fed at all and being exclusively breast-fed at 4 months of age compared with infants of mothers with normal BMI. CONCLUSIONS Our results show that duration of breast-feeding varies with socio-economic status and maternal BMI in Norway. Targeting groups with low socio-economic status and mothers with overweight or obesity is important, as they are less likely to breast-feed according to recommendations. |
| Starting Page | 1465 |
| Ending Page | 1473 |
| Page Count | 9 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1017/S1368980017003925 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S1368980017003925 |
| PubMed reference number | 29357963 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980017003925 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 21 |
| Issue Number | 8 |
| Journal | Public health nutrition |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
