Objective. To examine the influence of initial infant feeding on obesity in later life. Methods.
A systematic review of published studies investigating the association between infant
feeding and a measure of obesity was performed with Medline (1966 onward) and Embase
(1980 onward) databases, supplemented with manual searches. Data extraction was
conducted by 2 authors. Analyses were based on odds ratios of obesity among initially
breastfed subjects, compared with formula-fed subjects, pooled with fixed-effects models …