Impact of early infant growth, duration of breastfeeding and maternal factors on total body fat mass and visceral fat at 3 and 6 months of age
Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism Nov 19, 2017
Breij LM, et al. - The impact of early growth, type of feeding and maternal variables on fat mass in early life was evaluated in this study. In the first postnatal months, the higher gain in fat mass percentage (FM%) or in weight-for-length led not only to higher FM% but also more to the accumulation of visceral fat. Exclusive breastfeeding seemed to promote subcutaneous but not visceral fat in the first 6 months.
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