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JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC GASTROENTEROLOGY AND NUTRITION
卷 65, 期 2, 页码 225-231出版社
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/MPG.0000000000001539
关键词
human milk; infancy; infectious disease; weaning
资金
- Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services
- Ministry of Education and Research
- NIH/NIEHS [N01-ES-75558]
- NIH/NINDS [1 UO1 NS 047537-01, 2 UO1 NS 047537-06A1]
- Norwegian Institute of Public Health
- Oak Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland
Objectives: Breast-feeding may protect against infections, but its optimal duration remains controversial. We aimed to study the association of the duration of full and any breast-feeding with infections the first 18 months of life. Methods: The Norwegian Mother and Child study (MoBa) is a prospective birth cohort which recruited expecting mothers giving birth from 2000 to 2009. We analyzed data from the full cohort (n = 70,511) and sibling sets (n = 21,220) with parental report of breast-feeding and infections. The main outcome measures were the relative risks (RRs) for hospitalization for infections from 0 to 18 months by age at introduction of complementary foods and duration of any breast-feeding. Results: Although we found some evidence for an overall association between longer duration of full breast-feeding and lower risk of hospitalizations for infections, 7.3% of breast-fed children who received complementary foods at 4 to 6 months of age compared to 7.7% of those receiving complementary foods after 6 months were hospitalized (adjusted RR 0.95, 95% confidence interval 0.88-1.03). Higher risk of hospitalization was observed in those breast-fed 6 months or less (10.0%) compared to >= 12 months (7.6%, adjusted RR 1.22, 95% confidence interval 1.14-1.31), but with similar risks for 6 to 11 months versus >= 12 months. Matched sibling analyses, minimizing the confounding from shared maternal factors, showed nonsignificant associations and were generally weaker compared with the cohort analyses. Conclusions: Our results support the recommendation to fully breast-feed for 4 months and to continue breast-feeding beyond 6 months, and suggest that protection against infections is limited to the first 12 months.
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