Breast-Feeding: Early Influences on Later Health

Breast-Feeding: Early Influences on Later Health is a new book which draws together areas of research in early lifel programming of adult health, with a unique focus on the post-natal period in terms of early life programming particularly the extent to which differences in infant feeding practices c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Goldberg, Gail Ruth (Editor ), Prentice, Andrew (Editor ), Prentice, Ann (Editor ), Filteau, Suzanne (Editor ), Simondon, Kirsten (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edición:1st ed. 2009.
Colección:Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 639
Temas:
Public health.
Human physiology.
Immunology.
Gynecology .
Nutrition   .
Epidemiology.
Public Health.
Human Physiology.
Gynecology.
Nutrition.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Growth and Organ Development
  • Nutrient Transfer: Mammary Gland Regulation
  • Micronutrient Transfer: Infant Absorption
  • Developmental Aspects of the Mucosal Immune System: Role of External Environment, Mucosal Microflora and Milk
  • Infant Feeding and Growth
  • Intestinal Flora
  • Transenteric Signalling: Mammary Messages or White Noise?
  • Immune Function
  • Flavour Programming during Breast-Feeding
  • Methodological Challenges in Studying Long-term Effects of Breast-Feeding
  • The Long Term Effects of Early Postnatal Diet on Adult Health
  • Protective Effect of Breast-Feeding against Obesity in Childhood: Can a Meta-analysis of Published Observational Studies Help to Validate the Hypothesis?
  • Breast-Feeding Influences on Later Life - Cardiovascular Disease
  • Do Infants Who Are Breast-fed Have an Altered Risk of Developing Cancer?
  • Effects of Breast-feeding on Cognitive Function
  • Developmental Origins of Osteoporotic Fracture
  • The Long-term Effects of Breast-feeding on Asthma and Atopic Disease
  • Evolution of Human Lactation and Complementary Feeding: Implications for Understanding Contemporary Cross-cultural Variation
  • Macy-György Prize Lecture: My Milky Way
  • Exclusive Breast-feeding and HIV Infection
  • Breast-feeding Practices in Relation to HIV in India
  • Breast-feeding and HIV-1 Infection: Maternal Health
  • Early Breast-feeding Cessation and Infant Mortality in Low-income Countries
  • Measuring Trace Immune Factors in Human Milk
  • Abstracts of Poster Presentations.

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