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Health Benefits of Breastfeeding

Research in Support of Breastfeeding (Partial Bibliography)

K.E. Brock et al., "Sexual, Reproductive and Contraceptive Risk Factors for Carcinoma-in-Situ for the Uterine Cervix," Medical Journal of Australia 160 (1989): 125-130.
S.R. Cummings and J.L. Kelsey, "Epidemiology of Osteoporosis and Osteoporotic Fractures," Epidemiologic Review 7 (1986): 178-203.
M.K. Davis et al., "Infant feeding and childhood cancer," The Lancet (1988): 365-368.
D.M. Layde et al., "The Independent Association of Parity, Age at First Full-Term Pregnancy and Duration of Breastfeeding with the Risk of Breast Cancer," Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 42 (1989): 763-773.
E.J. Mayer et al., "Reduced risk of IDDM among breastfed children," Diabetes 37 (1988): 1625-1632.
F.E. Mallot et al., "Breastfeeding reduces incidence of hospital admissions for infections in infants," Pediatrics 25 (1980): 1121-1124.
E.A. Mitchell et al., "Cot death supplement: Results from the first year of the New Zealand cot death study," New Zealand Medical Journal 104 (1991): 71-76.
F.M. Stevens et al., "Decreasing Incidence of Coeliac Disease," Archives of Diseases in Childhood 62 (1987): 465-468.
J.H. Strimas and D.S. Chi, "Significance of IgE Level in Amniotic Fluid and Cord Blood for the Prediction of Allergy, " Annals of Allergy 61 (1988): 133-136.
A.K. Takala et al., "Risk Factors of Invasive Hemophilus Influenzae Type B Disease," Journal of Pediatrics 115 (1989): 694-701.
C. Van den Boggard et al., "The Relationship between breastfeeding and early childhood morbidity in a general population," Family Medicine 23 (1991): 510-515.
K. Yoo et al., "Independent protective effect of lactation against breast cancer:
A case-control study in Japan," American Journal of Epidemiology (1992): 726-733.

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