Breast-feeding and Infant Hospitalization for Infections: Large Cohort and Sibling Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

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 be

SUBMITTER: Stordal K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5527760 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature