Any Amount of Breastfeeding May Lower Baby’s Blood Pressure, Study Says:
, has long been considered beneficial for babies. It helps build baby’s immune system and reduces their risk of diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease and other chronic illnesses later in life. Previous research has also found that breastfeeding can help reduce a child’s risk of cardiovascular disease in adulthood. Now, one study is examining whether just a few days of breastfeeding early in life may be enough to protect baby against high blood pressure.
“This is the first study to evaluate the association of breastfeeding in the first days of life and blood pressure in early childhood,” lead study author Kozeta Miliku, M.D., Ph.D., clinical science officer of the CHILD Cohort Study and post-doctoral fellow in medicine at McMaster University, explained in a.
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