Is Being Breastfed as an Infant Associated with Adult Pulmonary Function?
Aasma Shaukat, MD, MPH,
Jo L. Freudenheim, PhD,
Brydon J.B. Grant, MD,
Paola Muti, MD, MSc,
Heather M. Ochs-Balcom, PhD,
Susan E. McCann, PhD,
Maurizio Trevisan, MD,
Licia Iacoviello, MD, PhD and
Holger J. Schünemann, MD, PhD
Departments of Medicine, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (A.S., B.J.B.G., H.J.S.)
Social and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Health Professions, University at Buffalo, State University of New York (J.L.F., B.J.B.G., P.M., H.M.O.-B., S.E.M., M.T., H.J.S.)
Veterans Affairs Medical Center (B.J.B.G., H.J.S.)
Department of Epidemiology, Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences, Roswell Park Cancer Institute (S.E.M.), Buffalo, New York
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (H.J.S.)
Center for High Technology Research, Catholic University, Campobasso (L.I.)
Division of Clinical Research Development and Information Translation, Italian National Cancer Institute Regina Elena, Rome (H.J.S.), Italy

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Fig. 1. Flow chart of study participants, Erie and Niagara Counties, New York, 19951999.
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Fig. 2. Histogram of percentage breastfed by quartiles of FEV1% and FVC%.
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