Researcher profile
Aluísio J. D. Barros
2 papers in the PaperMetrix corpus
Publications
Papers by this author
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Breastfeeding in the 21st century: epidemiology, mechanisms, and lifelong effect
2016 · The Lancet
The importance of breastfeeding in low-income and middle-income countries is well recognised, but less consensus exists about its importance in high-income countries. In low-income and middle-income countries, only 37% of children younger than 6 months …
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Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults
2017 · The Lancet
BACKGROUND: Underweight, overweight, and obesity in childhood and adolescence are associated with adverse health consequences throughout the life-course. Our aim was to estimate worldwide trends in mean body-mass index (BMI) and a comprehensive set of …