Infant feeding and idiopathic intussusception.
A case-control study showed that, compared with infants who had never been fed human milk, breast-fed infants had a relative risk of intussusception of 6.0 (95% confidence interval, 1.8 to 20.4) when breast-feeding at admission was exclusive and of 2.3 (95% confidence interval, 0.8 to 6.6) when it was partial. Exclusive breast-feeding may be a risk factor for intussusception in infancy.
Pisacane
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Dipartimento di Pediatria, Università di Napoli, Italy.
Caracciolo
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G
de Luca
U
U
Grillo
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G
Simeone
C
C
Impagliazzo
N
N
Mazzarella
G
G
D001903:Bottle Feeding; D001942:Breast Feeding; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002429:Cecal Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007077:Ileal Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D007223:Infant; D007443:Intussusception / Q000453:epidemiology*; D007558:Italy / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D012307:Risk Factors