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Breastfed Impact on Intelligence Quotient in Children Attended To Pediatric Clinic in Al-Hussien Hospital at Cairo, Egypt

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Last updated: 23 Dec 2024

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Background: Both genetic background and environmental factors have an impact on children's intellectual development. One of the initial postpartum experiences is breastfeeding.  Aim and objectives: The main goal of this research was to compare the level of intelligence between breastfed children and non-breastfed and find if there is an impact of breastfed on IQ.  
Subjects & methods: This cross-sectional research was conducted in pediatric clinics at Al-Azhar University Hospitals. Research was showed on 50 children. Results: regarding Full-Scale Intelligence Quotient of Wechsler Intelligence Scale of studied children. Full-Scale Intelligence in breastfed group ranged from 75 to 99 with mean ± SD = 88.39 ± 6.42 while in non-breastfed  group the Full-Scale Intelligence  ranged from 64 to 92 with mean ± SD = 82.63 ± 7.15. Conclusion: The present study compare intelligence level between breastfed and non-breastfed children. We concluded that there was significant relation between high Wechsler Intelligence Scale score and breastfed.

DOI

10.21608/egyfs.2023.320844

Keywords

Key words: Breastfed, IQ

Authors

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Mohammed

Last Name

Hamouda

MiddleName

Mahmoud Abd Alrahman

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Lecturer of psychiatry, Psychiatry department, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University International Member of American psychiatric association Member of Egyptian psychiatric association

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mohamad_hamouda@yahoo.com

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27

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5

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43878

Issue Date

2023-09-01

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2023-10-10

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2023-09-01

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32

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37

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1110-6352

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2536-9768

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319

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The Egyptian Journal of Fertility of Sterility

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https://egyfs.journals.ekb.eg/

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Breastfed Impact on Intelligence Quotient in Children Attended To Pediatric Clinic in Al-Hussien Hospital at Cairo, Egypt

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23 Dec 2024