%0 Journal Article
%T Association between Characteristics at Birth, Breastfeeding and Obesity in 22 Countries: The WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative ¨C COSI 2015/2017
%A Ana Isabel Rito
%A Andrea Gualtieri
%A Angela Spinelli
%A Anna Fija£¿kowska
%A Au£¿ra Petrauskien£¿
%A Benoit Salanave
%A Cecily Kelleher
%A Constanta Huidumac-Petrescu
%A Enisa Kujundzic
%A Iveta Pudule
%A Jolanda Hyska
%A Jo£¿o Breda
%A Julianne Williams
%A Lela Sturua
%A Marie Kune£¿ov¨¢
%A Marta Buoncristiano
%A Marta Garc¨ªa Solano
%A Maya Tanrygulyyeva
%A Rakhmatulloev Sherali
%A Sanja Musi£¿ Milanovi£¿
%A Shynar Abdrakhmanova
%A Tatjana Hejgaard
%A Valentina Peterkova
%A Vesselka Duleva
%A Victoria Farrugia Sant'Angelo
%A Wolfgang Ahrens
%J Archive of "Obesity Facts".
%D 2019
%R 10.1159/000500425
%X In Europe, although the prevalence of childhood obesity seems to be plateauing in some countries, progress on tackling this important public health issue remains slow and inconsistent. Breastfeeding has been described as a protective factor, and the more exclusively and the longer children are breastfed, the greater their protection from obesity. Birth weight has been shown to have a positive association with later risk for obesity
%K Breastfeeding
%K Birth weight
%K Childhood obesity
%K WHO/Europe
%K COSI Europe
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6547266/