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Argirios Argiriou:
November 2020
DOI:10.21203/rs.3.rs-104367/v1

Abstract

Objective:
Repeated serious stress e.g. repeated serious life events or chronic stress may contribute to increased morbidity . One of the most important protective health factors for children is breast-feeding, but the mechanisms for this effect are not fully elucidated. Our objective was to assess if the duration of breastfeeding actually could influence degree of stress of children still at school-age.

Methods: A random sample of 126 children from the ABIS-study, a prospective population-based child cohort study in southeast of Sweden was included. We had registered duration of breastfeeding and a number of psycho-social factors related to breast-feeding and/or stress. As a biomarker of stress we measured the child´s cortisol in hair at 8 years of age.

Results: We found a negative correlation (r= -0.23, p=0.009) between total duration of breastfeeding and hair cortisol levels. In a multivariate analysis this association persisted (p=0.006) even when adjusted for other potential intervening factors like age of mother at delivery and early psychosocial vulnerability in the family, an index based on 12 factors.

Conclusion: A long breastfeeding seems to decrease stress many years later in children. This is a reason to facilitate for mothers to breast-feed their children, also in the modern society where women are expected to have a professional life.

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