Evaluating the association between caesarean delivery and weight status in early childhood in a Japanese birth cohort study

Abstract To examine whether the prevailing hypothesis of an association between caesarean section (CS) delivery method and increased weight status in early childhood is observed in Japanese. A total of 1277 mother-infant pairs from a prospective hospital-based mother-infant birth cohort that recruit...

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Main Authors: Chiharu Miyayama, Naho Morisaki, Kohei Ogawa, Hisako Tanaka, Hiromichi Shoji, Toshiaki Shimizu, Haruhiko Sago, Reiko Horikawa, Kevin Y. Urayama
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-11-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-45316-8