PMID- 11059524
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20001120
LR  - 20190921
IS  - 0277-0903 (Print)
IS  - 0277-0903 (Linking)
VI  - 37
IP  - 7
DP  - 2000
TI  - Breastfeeding and asthma among Brazilian children.
PG  - 575-83
AB  - We examined the association of breastfeeding and the presence of chronic 
      respiratory symptoms among 5,182 Brazilian schoolchildren 7-14 years of age who 
      were participants in the International Study on Asthma and Allergies in Childhood 
      (ISAAC). The prevalence of medically diagnosed asthma and current wheeze were 
      respectively 4.6% (95% confidence interval [CI] 4.0%-5.2%) and 11.9% (95% CI 
      11.0%-12.8%). Ninety percent of the mothers in our study population had breastfed 
      their child. After adjusting for potential confounding factors, we found that 
      children who had not been breastfed were more likely to have a medical diagnosis 
      of asthma (odds ration [OR] = 1 .51, 95% CI 1.00-2.51), experience current wheeze 
      (OR = 1.29, 95% CI 0.96-1.74), and wheeze after exercise (OR = 1.51, 95% CI 
      1.01-2.27) than children who had been breastfed for more than 6 months. This 
      effect was only present among children with no family history of asthma (OR = 
      1.54, 95% CI 0.90-2.42 for medical diagnosis of asthma; OR = 1.27, 95% CI 
      0.93-1.75 for current wheezing; and OR = 1.74, 95% CI 1.12-2.6 for wheeze after 
      exercise). We conclude that the low prevalence of asthma and wheeze observed in 
      our population may be partly related to the high level of breastfeeding.
FAU - Romieu, I
AU  - Romieu I
AD  - Pan American Health Organization, Mexico. iromieu@insp3.insp.mx
FAU - Werneck, G
AU  - Werneck G
FAU - Ruiz Velasco, S
AU  - Ruiz Velasco S
FAU - White, M
AU  - White M
FAU - Hernandez, M
AU  - Hernandez M
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PT  - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
PL  - England
TA  - J Asthma
JT  - The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of 
      Asthma
JID - 8106454
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Asthma/*epidemiology/etiology
MH  - Brazil/epidemiology
MH  - *Breast Feeding
MH  - Child
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - Respiratory Sounds
MH  - Risk Assessment
EDAT- 2000/11/04 11:00
MHDA- 2001/02/28 10:01
CRDT- 2000/11/04 11:00
PHST- 2000/11/04 11:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2001/02/28 10:01 [medline]
PHST- 2000/11/04 11:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.3109/02770900009090812 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Asthma. 2000;37(7):575-83. doi: 10.3109/02770900009090812.