Infant feeding and adiposity: scientific challenges in life-course epidemiology.

The author discusses the article "General and abdominal fat outcomes in school-age children associated with infant breastfeeding patterns" by B. Durmu§ et al. which appeared within the issue. Topics mentioned include the value of birth cohort studies in life-course epidemiology, the association of socioeconomic status to child and adult obesity, and the inclusion of height in the expanded multivariable regression results of the study.