Literature review for - Flourish Paediatrics

had a significantly reduced risk of
one or more episodes of
gastrointestinal infection in the first
12 months of life (RR 0.67 (95% CI
0.46- 0.97) (outcome 47), which was
maintained in a multivariate mixed
model controlling for geographic
origin, urban versus rural location,
maternal education, and number of
siblings in the household (adjusted
OR 0.61 (95% CI 0.41 - 0.93).No
significant reduction in risk was
observed for hospitalization for
gastrointestinal infection, however
RR 0.79 (95% CI 0.42-1.49)
(outcome 48). In the abovementioned
Australian cohort study,
Oddy 1999 found no significant
reduction of risk for one or more
episodes of upper respiratory tract
infection (outcome49) in the EBF
group RR 1.07 (95% CI 0.96-1.20).
Neither Oddy 1999 nor Kramer
2000a found a significantly reduced
risk of two or more such episodes
pooled RR 0.91 (95% CI 0.82 -1.02)
(outcome 50). Nor did Oddy 1999
find a significant reduction in risk of
4 or more episodes of upper
respiratory infection RR 0.82 (95%
CI 0.52 - 1.29) (outcome 51) or of
one or more episodes of lower
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