Adult cancer risk in women who were breastfed as infants: large UK prospective study
There are known short-term benefits in breastfed infants versus bottle-fed infants in terms of lower risks of infection and obesity in infancy and childhood, but the long-term effect on the risk of adult cancers is unclear. In a cohort of 1 in 4 UK women born in 1935–1950 we report the incidence of...
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Springer Netherlands
2019
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