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Maternal Awareness Of The Association Between Paediatric Diet And Adult Disease Risk: A Follow-Up To The Dit-Coombe Hospital Study., Qianling Zhou, Katherine Younger, John Kearney
Maternal Awareness Of The Association Between Paediatric Diet And Adult Disease Risk: A Follow-Up To The Dit-Coombe Hospital Study., Qianling Zhou, Katherine Younger, John Kearney
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Chronic disease has been traditionally attributed to risk factors in adulthood; however, current orthodoxy suggests that the true origins of such diseases are initiated much earlier in life from inappropriate nutritional circumstances arising during the formative years(1). The present study was undertaken to examine current maternal attitudes towards the importance of paediatric diet in relation to adult diseases and to determine the extent to which attitudinal differences between subgroups in the population exist. A non-randomised postal follow-up survey to the DIT–Coombe Hospital Infant Feeding Study was carried out, involving the recruitment of 209 mothers from a pool sample of 520 …