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Correction to: Effects of early feeding on growth velocity and overweight/obesity in a cohort of HIV unexposed South African infants and children

International Breastfeeding Journal volume 12, Article number: 47 (2017) Cite this article

The Original Article was published on 02 April 2015

Correction

After publication of this article [1] it was brought to our attention that there were errors in the text under the heading ‘Data cleaning’, and in Table 3. The corrected text and updated Table 3 are given in this erratum.

Table 3 Period-1 (the 3/6 week–12 week) and period-2 (12–24 weeks) mean weight velocity (WVZ) and length velocity (LVZ) by infant feedinga
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“Anthropometric measurement values and Z-scores were flagged for verification if any of the following criteria were met: WAZ < −6 or >5, WLZ < −5 or >5, LAZ < −6 or >6, WLZ > 3 and LAZ < −3; 2) extreme changes in LAZ and WLZ (greater than 2.5 or 3) between consecutive visits; 3) BMI-for-age Z-score ≥ 6. All the flagged anthropometric observations were assessed and values treated as missing if no plausible explanation was determined.”

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  1. Ramokolo V, et al. Effects of early feeding on growth velocity and overweight/obesity in a cohort of HIV unexposed South African infants and children. Int Breastfeed J. 2015;10:14. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13006-015-0041-x.

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  1. Health Systems Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa

    Vundli Ramokolo, Tanya Doherty, Ameena E. Goga & Wanga Zembe

  2. Centre for International Health, Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

    Vundli Ramokolo, Meera Chhagan, Ingunn M. S. Engebretsen, Lars Thore Fadnes & Jan Van den Broeck

  3. Biostatistics Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa

    Carl Lombard

  4. School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

    Meera Chhagan, Tanya Doherty & Debra J. Jackson

  5. Department of Pediatrics, University of KwaZulu Natal, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa

    Meera Chhagan

  6. Department of Clinical Dentistry, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

    Lars Thore Fadnes

  7. Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Kalafong Hospital, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

    Ameena E. Goga

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  1. Meera Chhagan and Jan Van den Broeck are deceased. This paper is dedicated to their memory.

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      Ramokolo, V., Lombard, C., Chhagan, M. et al. Correction to: Effects of early feeding on growth velocity and overweight/obesity in a cohort of HIV unexposed South African infants and children. Int Breastfeed J 12, 47 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13006-017-0138-5

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