Chalk up another health benefit from breastfeeding. New research
out of Tel Aviv University has found a clear link between rates of
breastfeeding and the likelihood of developing attention
deficit/hyperactivity disorder, even when other known risk factors are
taken into consideration.
The findings, published in the journal Breastfeeding Medicine,
are the latest to show breastfeeding has a positive impact on child
development and health — including protection against illness.
For the study, researchers led by Aviva Mimouni-Bloch, M.D., of Tel
Aviv University's Sackler Faculty of Medicine and head of the Child
Neurodevelopmental Center in Loewenstein Hospital, compared the
breastfeeding habits of parents of three groups of children: those
diagnosed with ADHD; siblings of those with ADHD; and children without
ADHD.
The researchers found children who were bottle-fed at three months
of age were three times more likely to have ADHD than those who were
breastfed during the same period. At three months, only 43 percent of
children in the ADHD group were breastfed compared to 69 percent of the
sibling group and 73 percent of the others. At six months, 29 percent of
the ADHD group was breastfed, compared to 50 percent of the sibling
group and 57 percent of the others.
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