Infant feeding and idiopathic intussusception
A case-control study showed that, compared with infants who had never been fed human milk, breast-fed infants had a relative risk of intussusception of 6.0 (95% confidence interval, 1.8 to 20.4) when breast-feeding at admission was exclusive and of 2.3 (95% confidence interval, 0.8 to 6.6) when it w...
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Published in | The Journal of pediatrics Vol. 123; no. 4; pp. 593 - 595 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
New York, NY
Mosby, Inc
01.10.1993
Elsevier |
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Summary: | A case-control study showed that, compared with infants who had never been fed human milk, breast-fed infants had a relative risk of intussusception of 6.0 (95% confidence interval, 1.8 to 20.4) when breast-feeding at admission was exclusive and of 2.3 (95% confidence interval, 0.8 to 6.6) when it was partial. Exclusive breast-feeding may be a risk factor for intussusception in infancy. |
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Bibliography: | 9426459 S20 S30 ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
ISSN: | 0022-3476 1097-6833 |
DOI: | 10.1016/S0022-3476(05)80960-6 |