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The question of whether breastfeeding and formula feeding have differential effects on cognitive development has not been comprehensively answered in term infants (Drane & Logemann 2000). This has been due to lack of sample size resulting in inadequate statistical power and failure to obtain prospective data on a wide range of variables in¬cluding infant feeding, the relevant covariates, and validated tests of cognitive outcomes later in childhood.
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Oddy, W.H., Kendall, G.E., Blair, E., de Klerk, N.H., Silburn, S., Zubrick, S. (2004). Breastfeeding and Cognitive Development in Children. In: Pickering, L.K., Morrow, A.L., Ruiz-Palacios, G.M., Schanler, R.J. (eds) Protecting Infants through Human Milk. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 554. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4242-8_42
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