What Are the Maternal Factors that Potentially Intervenes in the Nutritional Composition of Human Milk?

ABSTRACT:

Background

To evaluate the potential factors associated with the nutritional composition of human milk of puerperal women.

Methods

cross-sectional study, conducted between March 2016 and August 2017, with 107 women, selected in a Tertiary Health Care Tertiary Health Facility of the Unified Health System (SUS) in the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro. Data were collected two months after delivery. The dependent variable of the study was the nutritional composition of human milk. We divided the independent variables into hierarchical levels: distal (age, schooling, parity and pregestational nutritional status), intermediate (number of prenatal visits and gestational weight gain) and proximal (alcohol consumption, smoking, diabetes mellitus and hypertension). For data analysis, we

SUBMITTER: Amaral Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8151127 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature