Effect of breast feeding on intelligence in children: prospective study, sibling pairs analysis, and meta-analysis

By F. Álvarez-blasco, J. Botella-Carretero, J. L. San Millán, H. Escobar-Morreale. British medical journal, 2006

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Breast-feeding: A Commentary by the ESPGHAN Committee on Nutrition (2009, background): “Any confounding factor that was the same for both members of a pair of siblings was automatically controlled for (81).”
Breastfeeding and the Use of Human Milk (2005, positive): “13,47 50 In addition, higher intelligence scores are noted in infants who exclusively breastfed for 3 months or longer, and higher teacher ratings were observed if exclusive breastfeeding was practiced for 3 months or longer.”
The Neuroscience of Intelligence (2016, background): “was breast-fed and the other was not (Der et al., 2006).”
Breastfeeding and intelligence: a systematic review and meta‐analysis (2015, background): “It has been suggested that maternal IQ could be an important residual confounder in this association (21), but we demonstrated that the association was still present among studies that controlled for maternal IQ [pooled odds ratio: 2.”