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From: Angela Horn <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: 25 February 2000 00:34
Subject: [ukmidwifery] New breastfeeding and heart disease study
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>This one has just been published - looked at adults aged 48 - 53 and then
>found out whether they were BF or formula fed.
>
>Best wishes,
>Angela H.
>
>http://adc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/abstract/archdischild%3b82/3/248
>
>Arch Dis Child 2000;82:248-252 ( March )
>Article
>
>Infant feeding and adult glucose tolerance, lipid profile, blood pressure,
>and obesity
>A C J Ravellia, J H P van der Meulenc, C Osmondc, D J P Barkerc, O P
Blekerb
>a Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Academic Medical
>Centre, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, b Department of Obstetrics
and
>Gynaecology, Academic Medical Centre, c MRC Environmental Epidemiology
Unit,
>Southampton General Hospital, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK
>
>
>Correspondence to: Dr van der Meulen email: [log in to unmask]
>
>Accepted 22 October 1999
>
>
>BACKGROUNDIt is generally accepted that breast feeding has a beneficial
>effect on the health of infants and young children. Recently, a few studies
>have shown that the method of infant feeding is also associated with
>cardiovascular disease and its risk factors in adult life.
>AIMS
>To examine the association between the method of infant feeding in the
first
>weeks after birth and glucose tolerance, plasma lipid profile, blood
>pressure, and body mass in adults aged 48-53 years.
>METHODS
>Subjects born at term between 1 November 1943 and 28 February 1947 in the
>Wilhelmina Gasthuis in Amsterdam around the time of a severe period of
>famine (late November 1944 to early May 1945). For 625 subjects,
information
>was available about infant feeding at the time of discharge from hospital
>(on average 10.4 days after birth), and at least one blood sample after an
>overnight fast.
>
>RESULTS
>Subjects who were bottle fed had a higher mean 120 minute plasma glucose
>concentration after a standard oral glucose tolerance test than those who
>were exclusively breast fed. They also had a higher plasma low density
>lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol concentration, a lower high density
>lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol concentration, and a higher LDL/HDL ratio.
>Systolic blood pressure and body mass index were not affected by the method
>of infant feeding.
>CONCLUSIONS
>Exclusive breast feeding seems to have a protective effect against some
risk
>factors for cardiovascular disease in later life.
>
>
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