TY - JOUR T1 - Relationship between milk feeding pattern and preschool children weight in Sari ‎ TT - بررسی ارتباط بین الگوهای شیردهی با وزن کودکان پیش دبستانی شهر ساری JF - gums-hnmj JO - gums-hnmj VL - 15 IS - 1 UR - http://hnmj.gums.ac.ir/article-1-207-en.html Y1 - 2005 SP - 52 EP - 58 KW - Body Mass Index KW - Body weight KW - Breast feeding KW - Children KW - Obesity N2 - Introduction: Obesity in childhood is not only isolated to obesity in adulthood but it also ‎aggravates physical complication later in life. One of the simple strategies for prevention of ‎pediatric obesity is breastfeeding in infancy period.‎ Objective: This study aimed to determine the relationship between milk feeding pattern and ‎preschool children’s weight.‎ Methods: This study is a retrospective case-control. For data collection, a questionnaire, meter ‎and scale was used. In this study the case groups were obese children and the control groups ‎were children with normal weight. Sample size was ‎‏120‏‎ that were selected by cluster ‎randomized method. Researcher selected the sample by reporting to day care centers affiliated ‎to Behzisti and ‎‏60‏‎ obese and ‎‏60‏‎ normal weight children were chosen after their age, sex, ‎height, weight and BMI was measured. According to the definition of this study, children ‎with BMI more the ‎‏85‏‎ percentile based on age and sex were considered obese.‎ Results: The results indicated that there was a significant difference between milkfeeding ‎pattern during infancy and obese, and normal weight children (P<‎‏0.001‏‎). But there was no ‎significant difference between timing of introduction of solid foods. But there was a ‎significant difference between daily TV watching (P<‎‏0.001‏‎), mother’s BMI (P<‎‏0.001‏‎) and ‎birth weight (P<‎‏0.003‏‎) in two groups.‎ Conclusion: This survey indicated that milkfeeding pattern differed significantly between ‎obese and normal weight children, also after adjusting demographic characteristics, ‎milkfeeding pattern was significant, thus milkfeeding pattern along with demographic ‎characteristics effects children’s weight.‎ M3 ER -