Titre : | Body mass index and lactation performance (1994) |
Auteurs : | A Prentice, Auteur ; GR Goldberg, Auteur |
Type de document : | Article : texte imprimé |
Dans : | European journal of clinical nutrition (Vol.48 Suppl.3, Novembre 1994) |
Langues: | Anglais |
Index. décimale : | PH.1.1 (Lactation) |
Catégories : | Indice Masse Corporelle ; Lactation ; Poids corporel |
Résumé : | Data from the world literature have been analysed in order to test whether low body mass index (BMI: kg/m2) is a useful indicator of functional impairment of lactation performance. Forty-one databases containing 1726 measurements have been identified as having reliable estimates of breast-milk quantity and/or quality. There is no detectable relationship between maternal BMI and the volume of milk produced by mothers when analysed according to the mean BMI of different populations, or of different subgroups stratified by BMI within populations. This conclusion holds even at BMIs |