† Because many of the case - control studies demonstrated a protective
effect of breastfeeding against SIDS in univariate analysis but not when confounding factors were taken into account, 62,184,198,231,238 these results suggested that factors associated with breastfeeding, rather than breastfeeding itself, are protective.
Some studies have suggested a protective
effect of breastfeeding against SIDS, while others have not.
The protective
effect of breastfeeding against obesity is consistent, though small, across many studies.
The protective
effect of breastfeeding against obesity is consistent and appears to increase with the duration of breastfeeding (Arenz et al., 2004).
Results: We found a large body of evidence for the protective
effects of breastfeeding against diarrhea incidence, prevalence, hospitalizations, diarrhea mortality, and all - cause mortality.
Not exact matches
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Breastfeeding is a natural safety net against the worst effects of poverty... exclusive breastfeeding goes a long way towards cancelling out the health difference between being born into poverty or being born in
Breastfeeding is a natural safety net
against the worst
effects of poverty... exclusive
breastfeeding goes a long way towards cancelling out the health difference between being born into poverty or being born in
breastfeeding goes a long way towards cancelling out the health difference between being born into poverty or being born into affluence.
The 2013 «Long - term
effects of breastfeeding: A systematic review» World Health Organization publication concluded: «The evidence suggests that
breastfeeding may have a protective
effect against type 2 diabetes, particularly among adolescents.»
Research in the United States, Canada, Europe, and other developed countries, among predominantly middle - class populations, provides strong evidence that human milk feeding decreases the incidence and / or severity
of diarrhea,1 - 5 lower respiratory infection,6 - 9 otitis media,3,10 - 14bacteremia, 15,16 bacterial meningitis, 15,17 botulism, 18 urinary tract infection, 19 and necrotizing enterocolitis.20, 21 There are a number
of studies that show a possible protective
effect of human milk feeding
against sudden infant death syndrome,22 - 24insulin - dependent diabetes mellitus,25 - 27 Crohn's disease, 28,29 ulcerative colitis, 29 lymphoma, 30,31 allergic diseases,32 - 34 and other chronic digestive diseases.35 - 37
Breastfeeding has also been related to possible enhancement
of cognitive development.38, 39
This review
of 2,267 SIDS cases and 6,837 control infants explored the duration
of breastfeeding required to confer a protective
effect against Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).
Instead
of saying that formula has negative health
effects, they choose to say that
breastfeeding protects
against these problems.
In the 1980's, he was the first researcher to show the protective
effect of exclusive
breastfeeding against infant mortality, and one
of the leaders
of the creation
of the World Health Child Growth Standards based on
breastfed infants.
There's more detail about
breastfeeding and its protective
effect against cancer here, and you can read a fuller discussion
of the lifestyle risk factors linked to cancer here.
The protective
effect of breastfeeding increases with exclusivity.73 However, any
breastfeeding has been shown to be more protective
against SIDS than no
breastfeeding.73
Although
breastfeeding has modest
effects on blood pressure (51) and adiposity (52, 53) in later life, it has numerous other health benefits, including protection
against infectious disease morbidity (54) and mortality (55) in infancy and a lower risk
of type 2 diabetes (56) and improved neural and psychosocial development in the longer term (57, 58).