Breastfeeding practice, breastfeeding policy and hospitalisations for infectious diseases in early and later childhood: a register-based study in Uppsala County, Sweden.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the association between breastfeeding practice and hospitalisations for infectious diseases in early and later childhood, in particular, to compare exclusive breast feeding 4-5 months with exclusive breastfeeding 6 months or more. Thereby, provide evidence to inform breastfeeding policy.

Design

A register-based cohort study.

Setting

A cohort was created by combining the Swedish Medical Birth Register, the National Inpatient Register, the Cause of Death Register, the Total Population Register, the Longitudinal integration database for health insurance and labour market studies, with the Uppsala Preventive Child Health Care database.

Patients

37 825 term and post-term singletons born to women who resided in Uppsala County (Sweden) between 199

SUBMITTER: Videholm S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8169467 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature