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2003 • 5,872 citations

Breast-feeding and cognitive development: a meta-analysis

1999 • 1,291 citations

Breast-feeding and childhood obesity—a systematic review

2004 • 1,247 citations

Intrauterine exposure to diabetes conveys risks for type 2 diabetes and obesity: a study of discordant sibships.

2000 • 1,232 citations

Breast feeding and obesity: cross sectional study

1999 • 916 citations

Risk of Overweight Among Adolescents Who Were Breastfed as Infants

2001 • 797 citations

Infant Weight Gain and Childhood Overweight Status in a Multicenter, Cohort Study

2002 • 702 citations

Excessive Obesity in Offspring of Pima Indian Women with Diabetes during Pregnancy

1983 • 520 citations

Long-Term Prospective Evaluation of Offspring of Diabetic Mothers

1991 • 462 citations

Association Between Infant Breastfeeding and Overweight in Young Children

2001 • 446 citations

Breastfeeding and lowering the risk of childhood obesity

2002 • 435 citations

Body Mass Index and Overweight in Adolescents in 13 European Countries, Israel, and the United States

2004 • 406 citations

Hormones and Growth Factors in Milk

1993 • 399 citations

Maternal prepregnant body mass index, duration of breastfeeding, and timing of complementary food introduction are associated with infant weight gain

2004 • 389 citations

Breastfeeding and the Risk of Hospitalization for Respiratory Disease in Infancy

2003 • 370 citations

Breastfeeding and incidence of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in Pima Indians

1997 • 356 citations

Infant Feeding and Blood Cholesterol: A Study in Adolescents and a Systematic Review

2002 • 344 citations

Perinatal elevation of hypothalamic insulin, acquired malformation of hypothalamic galaninergic neurons, and syndrome X-like alterations in adulthood of neonatally overfed rats

1999 • 338 citations

Do breast-feeding and delayed introduction of solid foods protect against subsequent obesity?

1981 • 274 citations

Effect of breast feeding in infancy on blood pressure in later life: systematic review and meta-analysis

2003 • 230 citations

Glucose tolerance and insulin secretion in children of mothers with pregestational IDDM or gestational diabetes

1997 • 225 citations

Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Children

2002 • 223 citations

Maternal diabetes during pregnancy: Consequences for the offspring

1990 • 220 citations

Overweight and obesity in infants of mothers with long-term insulin-dependent diabetes or gestational diabetes

1997 • 218 citations

Long-Term Impact of Neonatal Breast-Feeding on Body Weight and Glucose Tolerance in Children of Diabetic Mothers

2002 • 217 citations

Overweight and obesity in 6- to 14-year-old Czech children in 1991: Protective effect of breast-feeding

2002 • 217 citations

Observations on the Orexigenic Hypothalamic Neuropeptide Y‐System in Neonatally Overfed Weanling Rats

1999 • 214 citations

Early macronutrient intake and overweight at five years of age

2000 • 209 citations

Asthma in preschool children: prevalence and risk factors

2001 • 204 citations

Infantile Overnutrition among Artificially Fed Infants in the Sheffield Region

1971 • 162 citations

Long-term follow-up of infants of mothers with type 1 diabetes: evidence for hereditary and nonhereditary transmission of diabetes and precursors.

2000 • 160 citations

A Meta-Analysis of Infant Diet and Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus

1996 • 151 citations

LATER DEVELOPMENT OF BREAST FED AND ARTIFICALLY FED INFANTS

1929 • 149 citations

Elevation of hypothalamic neuropeptide Y-neurons in adult offspring of diabetic mother rats

1999 • 134 citations

Infant feeding and obesity through the lifecourse

2003 • 134 citations

‘Fetal programming’ and ‘functional teratogenesis’: on epigenetic mechanisms and prevention of perinatally acquired lasting health risks

2004 • 131 citations

Inverse association of overweight and breast feeding in 9 to 10-y-old children in Germany

2001 • 128 citations

Prediction of obesity in children at 5 years: A cohort study

1997 • 115 citations

Cross-Fostering to Diabetic Rat Dams Affects Early Development of Mediobasal Hypothalamic Nuclei Regulating Food Intake, Body Weight, and Metabolism

2004 • 102 citations

Length vs. active force relationship in single isolated smooth muscle cells

1991 • 97 citations

Long-Term Impact of Breast-Feeding on Body Weight and Glucose Tolerance in Children of Diabetic Mothers

2005 • 87 citations

Maternal milk and plasma glucose and insulin levels: studies in normal and diabetic subjects.

1989 • 84 citations

Increased number of galanin-neurons in the paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus of neonatally overfed weanling rats

1999 • 71 citations

Milk of patients with tightly controlled insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus has normal macronutrient and fatty acid composition

1993 • 61 citations

Interaction of genetic and environmental programming of the leptin system and of obesity disposition

2000 • 52 citations

Socioeconomic Gradients in Body Weight of German Children Reverse Direction between the Ages of 2 and 6 Years

2003 • 50 citations

Infant fatness and feeding practices: A longitudinal assessment

1981 • 47 citations

An examination of factors believed to be associated with infantile obesity

1979 • 46 citations

Hormones and growth factors in milk

1993 • 38 citations

Glucose tolerance of 2- to 5-yr-old offspring of diabetic mothers

2004 • 34 citations

Effect of breast milk of diabetic mothers on bodyweight of the offspring in the first year of life

2004 • 29 citations

Physical growth of breast-fed and formula-fed infants from birth to age two years

1986 • 15 citations

Infant Feeding Patterns and Oral Habits of Overweight and Underweight Children

1963 • 9 citations