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Nutrition, infant feeding and post-partum amenorrhoea in rural Bangladesh

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Kathleen Ford  and
Sandra Huffman
Kathleen Ford
Affiliation:
Department of Population Planning and International Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Sandra Huffman
Affiliation:
Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
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Summary

The duration of amenorrhoea among a group of chronically malnourished women in a rural area of Bangladesh is examined by application of multivariate hazard models with time-varying covariates, including the influence of maternal nutrition, seasonality and patterns of infant feeding. Both maternal weight at pregnancy termination and the pattern of infant feeding affected the length of post-partum amenorrhoea. Analyses focused on season of birth showed the importance of differences by education in infant feeding.

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Research Article
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Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , October 1988 , pp. 461 - 469
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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