a systematic review of maternal obesity and breastfeeding intention, initiation and duration系统回顾的肥胖和母乳喂养的意图,开始和持续时间.pdfVIP

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2007, 7:9 /1471-2393/7/9 Research article A systematic review of maternal obesity and breastfeeding intention, initiation and duration 1 2,3 Lisa H Amir* and Susan Donath Address: 1Mother Child Health Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, 2Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia and 3Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Australia Email: Lisa H Amir* - l.amir@.au; Susan Donath - susan.donath@.au * Corresponding author Published: 4 July 2007 Received: 21 February 2007 Accepted: 4 July 2007 BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2007, 7:9 doi:10.1186/1471-2393-7-9 This article is available from: /1471-2393/7/9 © 2007 Amir and Donath; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Breastfeeding behaviour is multifactorial, and a wide range of socio-cultural and physiological variables impact on a womans decision and ability to breastfeed successfully. An association has been reported between maternal obesity and low breastfeeding rates. This is of public health concern because obesity is rising in women of reproductive age and the apparent association with increased artificial feeding will lead to a greater risk of obesity in children. The aim of this paper is to examine the relationship