Sentences with phrase «definition of exclusive breastfeeding»

Since Dewey's review was published, two additional studies have been published with somewhat inconsistent results, 11,12 although both studies lacked a clear definition of exclusive breastfeeding.

Although most of the included studies used the WHO definition of exclusive breastfeeding (3), few clearly indicated the timeframe within which exclusive breastfeeding was assessed.

The results of this study should be evaluated in light of the use of a nonstandard definition of exclusive breastfeeding.

Not exact matches

(It's the same as researchers» insistence, nowadays, on a clear definition of «exclusive breastfeeding»; it's only since the importance of this has been appreciated that the real differences between breastfeeding and formula feeding have begun to emerge.)

However, the organization also called for more research regarding the benefits of 6 vs 4 months of exclusive breastfeeding.25 Thus far, several studies in industrialized countries revealed that a shorter duration of breastfeeding increases the risk of common infectious diseases, such as respiratory and gastrointestinal tract infections.8, 19,24,26, — , 32 However, in these studies, various definitions of the exclusiveness of breastfeeding were used24, 27,28,30 or the combination of duration and exclusiveness of breastfeeding was not taken into account.8, 31