Effects of breastfeeding on postpartum weight change in Japanese women: The Japan Environment and Children’s Study (JECS)

Masafumi Yamamoto; Mio Takami; Toshihiro Misumi; Chihiro Kawakami; Etsuko Miyagi; Shuichi Ito; Shigeru Aoki; Japan Environment and Children’s Study (JECS) Group

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0268046

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Effects of breastfeeding on postpartum weight change in Japanese women: The Japan Environment and Children’s Study (JECS)

Masafumi Yamamoto,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Perinatal Center for Maternity and Neonate, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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Mio Takami,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Perinatal Center for Maternity and Neonate, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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Toshihiro Misumi,

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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Chihiro Kawakami,

Roles Data curation, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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Etsuko Miyagi,

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5492-0844

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Shuichi Ito,

Roles Data curation, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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Shigeru Aoki ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: smyyaoki@yahoo.co.jp

Affiliation Perinatal Center for Maternity and Neonate, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5307-575X

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Japan Environment and Children’s Study (JECS) Group

¶Membership of the Japan Environment and Children’s Study is provided in the Acknowledgments.
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Effects of breastfeeding on postpartum weight change in Japanese women: The Japan Environment and Children’s Study (JECS)

Masafumi Yamamoto,
Mio Takami,
Toshihiro Misumi,
Chihiro Kawakami,
Etsuko Miyagi,
Shuichi Ito,
Shigeru Aoki,
Japan Environment and Children’s Study (JECS) Group

Published: May 4, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0268046

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