Hydrolysed formula and risk of allergic or autoimmune disease: systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether feeding infants with hydrolysed formula reduces their risk of allergic or autoimmune disease.

Design

Systematic review and meta-analysis, as part of a series of systematic reviews commissioned by the UK Food Standards Agency to inform guidelines on infant feeding. Two authors selected studies by consensus, independently extracted data, and assessed the quality of included studies using the Cochrane risk of bias tool.

Data sources

Medline, Embase, Web of Science, CENTRAL, and LILACS searched between January 1946 and April 2015.

Eligibility criteria for selecting studies

Prospective intervention trials of hydrolysed cows' milk formula compared with another hydrolysed formula, human breast milk, or a standard cows' milk formula, whic

SUBMITTER: Boyle RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4783517 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature