Lactancia Materna y su influencia en el Cociente Intelectual de los niños y niñas a los 6 años de edad, valorado con el Test K-Bit, en la provincia de Granada (España)
- Juan Manuel Pérez Ruiz 1
- Mª Teresa Miranda León 1
- José María Peinado Herreros 1
- Mª Concepción Iribar Ibabe 1
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Universidad de Granada
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ISSN: 1135-3074
Year of publication: 2013
Volume: 19
Issue: 4
Pages: 196-200
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista española de nutrición comunitaria = Spanish journal of community nutrition
Abstract
Background: This essay is aimed to test the hypothesis that children who have been exclusively breastfed for a longer period of time, get higher scores in intelligence tests. We analyze the potential association between the duration of exclusive breastfeeding and k-Bit test scores in 6-year-old schoolchildren.Methods: A cross-sectional study involving 103 mother-child pairs selected by simple random sampling procedure among mothers with 6-year-old children attending primary school in the province of Granada between September 2010-june 2011. The sample consisted of 103 6-year-old schoolchildren, 47 boys and 56 girls. Results: The estimated scores for the K-Bit Test, an estimate of Intelligence Coefficient, show an statisti-cally significant association between duration of exclusive breastfeeding and K-Bit test scores (p=0,000).Conclusion: We observed a significant association between exclusive breastfeeding duration and K-Bit test scores at 6 years.