Michal Hrdlicka, Tomas Urbanek, Adela Rotreklova, Aneta Kultova, Ondrej Valek, Iva Dudova
Predictors of age at diagnosis in autism spectrum disorders: the use of multiple regression analyses and a classification tree on a clinical sample
European child & adolescent psychiatry
early childhood obesity serious public health problem poses risk obesity later life study aimed investigate whether infant feeding affects risk overweight obesity preschool children united arab emirates uae crosssectional study carried data collected kindergarten al uae one hundred fifty parents preschool children aged 2 6 years participated study univariate multivariate linear regression used investigate associations longer duration breastfeeding later introduction complementary foods associated lower bmi zscore preschool children month breastfeeding associated lower bmi zscore unadjusted model 003 95 ci 005 001 p 001 month increase age introducing complementary foods associated lower bmi zscore unadjusted model 043 95 ci 060 to0027 p0001 associations remained adjustment potential confounding factors age sex maternal bmi maternal education level mothers age social class fathers bmi duration breastfeedinig 002 95 ci 005 000 p0001 age complementary feeding 039 95 ci 057 to021 p0001 poor infant feeding practices shorter duration breastfeedinig early introduction complementary foods found associated higher bmi preschool children promoting appropriate proper infant feeding practices line recommendations could one strategy help prevent childhood obesity uae