Sentences with phrase «lifetime duration of breastfeeding»

The researchers used this data to calculate the mean duration of breastfeeding per child and cumulative lifetime duration of any breastfeeding for all children.

Additionally, the U.S. Nurses» Health Study found only women with a lifetime duration of breastfeeding of 2 years or more had a significantly lower risk of coronary heart disease than those who never breastfed.

The lack of or short lifetime duration of breastfeeding typical of women in developed countries makes a major contribution to the high incidence of breast cancer in these countries.

It is estimated that the cumulative incidence of breast cancer in developed countries would be reduced by more than half, from 6.3 to 2.7 per 100 women by age 70, if women had the average number of births and lifetime duration of breastfeeding that had been prevalent in developing countries until recently.

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Longer duration of breastfeeding may or may not affect the appearance of your breasts, but it will reduce the risk for breast cancer over your lifetime, in addition to the many other health benefits to you and to your breastfed baby.

This is one explanation for why developed countries, whose mothers breastfeed for shorter durations (or not at all) and have fewer children in their lifetimes, have higher rates of breast cancer among their populations.

A significantly reduced risk of breast cancer was also found for those whose lifetime duration of lactation totaled 73 - 108 months (odds ratio = 0.47, 95 % CI: 0.23, 0.95) and for those who breastfed for > or = 109 months (odds ratio = 0.24, 95 % CI: 0.11, 0.53).