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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
Volume 181, Issue 12, Pages 940-943Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwv029
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breastfeeding; cardiovascular disease; lactation; maternal health; obesity; visceral adiposity
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Recently, there has been growing interest in understanding the ways in which lactation affects maternal health. The accompanying article by Palmer et al. (Am J Epidemiol. 2015; 181(12): 932-939), particularly their finding that prepregnancy obesity modifies the relationship between lactation and postpartum weight gain, makes an important contribution to this field. In this commentary, I discuss these findings within the context of other recent literature which indicates that whether or not a mother breastfeeds her newborn appears to be a powerful predictor of the mother's future risk of developing diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease, independent of maternal weight or body mass index in later life.
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