Excluding type 2 diabetes (because of insufficient data), we conducted a cost analysis for all pediatric diseases for which the Agency for Healthcare
Research and
Quality reported risk ratios that favored breastfeeding: necrotizing enterocolitis, otitis media, gastroenteritis, hospitalization for lower respiratory tract infections, atopic dermatitis, sudden infant death syndrome, childhood asthma, childhood leukemia, type 1 diabetes mellitus, and childhood obesity.
Some activities that these commenters recommended be explicitly
excluded from the definition of «
research» included: marketing
research, health and productivity management,
quality assessment and improvement activities, and internal
research conducted to improve health.