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29exclusively breastfed for longer than six months. Partial breastfeeding, even for six months, was notassociated with a reduced risk of respiratory illness in infants.While a longer duration of breastfeeding is associated with reduced risk of respiratory illness, Sinha etal(28) examined the effect of breastfeeding on admissions for respiratory tract infections in neonates. Theyfound that infants who were exclusively breastfed were 30% less likely to be admitted to hospital forrespiratory illness in the first 30 days of life compared to infants that had been formula-fed. This relationshipwas only found to be significant for girls and not for boys. It is unclear why the health benefits were limitedto girls and further work is needed to identify if such sex differences are true in other groups. It does showthat exclusive breastfeeding does have health benefits even in early life.As severe infantile respiratory illness has been linked to subsequent development of childhood asthma, it isimportant to identify factors which can reduce the incidence of respiratory illness. It is clear thatbreastfeeding confers protection against respiratory illness in infancy, but what is less clear is the strengthof that protection and the duration which it lasts after breastfeeding cessation.
30Health Outcomes; Obesity in Reception.Fig.13Within Leicestershire City PCT there is a significant association between breastfeeding rates and levels ofoverweight children as shown in fig.13. There is no association with levels of obesity.A 5% increase in breastfeeding is associated with a 6% reduction in the risk of being overweightduring reception year, although the true reduction may lie between 3.5% and 8%.The association for levels of overweight children takes into account the effects of maternal age anddeprivation. There is too much variation within the data to take into account the effects of ethnicity.Rapid early weight gain before two years of age is associated with an increased risk of overweight in laterchildhood(29)(30)(31) and most excess weight gained before puberty is gained by the age of five(32).Some studies have shown that breastfeeding can lead to a slower weight gain in early life(33)(34) thushaving a protective effect against overweight and obesity in childhood and later life.
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