ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Physical development of infants and early age children depending on the character of feeding in the first year of life
Department of Pediatrics, Doctors Improvement Faculty of Advanced Training and Retraining of Specialists, Saratov State Medical University named after VI Razumovsky,, Saratov, Russia
Correspondence should be addressed: Nikolay Zryachkin
ul. B. Kazachiya, d. 112, Saratov, Russia, 410012; ur.xednay@hcayrzin
The research objective the work was to define the presence of features of physical development of children at the age from 1 month till 3 years depending on the character of feeding in the first year of life. 2136 children living in the municipality of Engels in the Saratov region were under study. It was carried out the analysis of the influence of the nature of feeding in the first year of life on the formation of physical development of the surveyed children. Deviations in the physical development of children from the accepted norm at various types of feeding were revealed.
Keywords: physical development, feeding, anthropometry, morphotype