Evolution and Infant Feeding

Dugdale, A. E.

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(86)91739-3

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“…Anti-infective properties ofbreast milk may be more important than its nutritional content, certainly in the age range studied. 32 Lower mortality in breast fed children was associated with a significantly lower prevalence of bloody and of chronic diarrhoea and lower case fatality rates of these two diseases. This might be explained in terms of the anti-infective properties of breast milk33"6 and of its value in the management of protracted diarrhoea.37…”

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confidence: 97%

Breast feeding, nutritional state, and child survival in rural Bangladesh

Briend¹,

Wojtyniak²,

Rowland³

1988

BMJ

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The effect of breast feeding on nutritional state, morbidity, and child survival was examined prospectively in a community in rural Bangladesh. Every month for six months health workers inquired about breast feeding and illness and measured arm circumference in an average of 4612 children aged 12-36 months.Data from children who died within one month of a visit were compared with those from children who survived. Roughly one third ofthe deaths in the age range 18-36 months were attributable to absence of breast feeding. Within this age range protection conferred by breast feeding was independent of age but was evident only in severely malnourished children.In communities with a high prevalence of malnutrition breast feeding may substantially enhance child survival up to 3 years of age.

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Breast feeding, nutritional state, and child survival in rural Bangladesh

Briend¹,

Wojtyniak²,

Rowland³

1988

BMJ

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“…Gestational hyperlipidemia plays the physiological role of supplying both cholesterol and TGs to the rapidly developing fetus [29]. Maternal TGs are hydrolyzed on maternal lipoprotein receptors by lipoprotein lipase and are transported across the placenta via fatty acid-binding proteins.…”

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Atherogenic lipoprotein subfraction profile in preeclamptic women with and without high triglycerides: different pathophysiologic subsets in preeclampsia

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“…As stated by Dugdale 11 : "Simple arithmetic shows that where there is a conflict of interests, the welfare of the mother outweighs that of the infant. The dyad hypothesis suggests that maximum evolutionary gain is obtained when protein and energy levels in breast-milk are just high enough to prevent prohibitive infant mortality rates, but low enough to spare the mother.…”

Section: Mother-offspring Unitmentioning

confidence: 99%