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Washington: A new study has found that young adults who were breastfed
for three months or more as babies have a significantly lower risk of
chronic inflammation associated with cardiovascular and metabolic
diseases. The research from the Brown School at Washington University
in St. Louis, shows that birth weight and breastfeeding both have
implications for children's health decades later. The researchers used
data from the US National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health,
including parent surveys, and blood samples providing measurements of
CRP. These findings held up in a series of sibling models, in which
one sibling was breastfed and the other was not. Such models provide
improved confidence in the results by implicitly controlling for
genetic factors for elevated CRP. "These findings underscore the
importance of a preventive approach but not limited to prenatal health
care and postnatal breastfeeding support," said Molly W Metzger,
co-author of the study with Thomas W McDade, PhD, of Northwestern
University. The study was published in the journal Proceedings of the
Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. (With Agencies Input)
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