Maternal psychological distress and child weight at 24 months: investigating indirect effects through breastfeeding in the All Our Families cohort.

CONCLUSIONS: The results of this longitudinal cohort analysis support an indirect relationship between maternal psychological distress in pregnancy and the childhood overweight/obesity at 24 months old, mediated through breastfeeding duration. PMID: 32215855 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32215855?dopt=Abstract

Source: Canadian Journal of Public Health - March 24, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Shay M, Tomfohr-Madsen L, Tough S Tags: Can J Public Health Source Type: research