{"id":15976,"date":"2017-11-02T13:01:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T07:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zovon.com\/?p=15976"},"modified":"2018-06-28T16:47:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T11:17:46","slug":"two-month-breast-feeding-halves-risk-cot-death-according-new-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/?p=15976","title":{"rendered":"Two-month breast feeding halves the risk of cot death according to new research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">A new research investigated over 9000 infants from various cultures and countries and found that breast feeding for just 2 months can reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) or cot death by almost 50%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&#8220;The other important finding from our study is that any amount of breast-feeding reduces the risk of SIDS \u2014 in other words, both partial and exclusive breast-feeding appear to provide the same benefit,&#8221; explains the lead researcher, Fern R. Hauck, a professor of family medicine and public health sciences at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">SIDS is defined as the sudden death of an infant, who is less than a year, which cannot be understood after an autopsy, investigation at the time of death and review of child medical history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">According to a report, in 2015, SIDS was responsible for around 1600 deaths in the United States, where this syndrome was the leading cause of death among infants with age between 1 to 12 months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Prof. Hauck and his team said that there already exists evidence that breast feeding lowers the risk of cot death, but their research is possibly the very first to establish a link between breast-feeding duration and reduced risk of SSID-related deaths.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The team extracted the data from eight studies that covered a total of 2259, who died of SIDS and 6894 babies who did not die of SIDS. After analyzing the results, they found that breast feeding for at least 2 months halves the risk of SIDS. The team says that the results were convincing and consistent; although the babies were from different cultures and countries. The team suggested that breast feeding rate should be raised worldwide to lower the risk of SIDS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The World health organization (WHO) is targeting for the year 2025 for at least 50% of the babies to be breast fed for a minimum of first six months after their birth.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new research investigated over 9000 infants from various cultures and countries and found that breast feeding for just 2 months can reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) or cot death by almost 50%. &#8220;The other important finding from our study is that any amount of breast-feeding reduces the risk of SIDS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12660],"tags":[33602],"class_list":{"0":"post-15976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-health-news","8":"tag-breast-feeding"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}