AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Breast Milk Tied To Lower BP in Adolescence.
Children who consumed breast milk during infancy had lower blood pressure in adolescence than those who were fed formula, reported Dr. Atul Singhal of the Medical Research Council Childhood Nutrition Research Centre, London, and colleagues.
Studies by other investigators have shown an increased risk of death from coronary heart disease in men who were underweight at the age of 1, suggesting that insufficient nutrition in infancy can influence the onset of high blood pressure and possible heart disease later in life. However, that theory has not been firmly established.
The study conducted by Dr. Singhal and colleagues involved tracking 502 premature babies born in the United Kingdom between 1982 and 1985. Within 48 hours of birth, the infants were randomly assigned diets.
A total of 253 infants were assigned donor breast milk, and 249 got preterm formula, until they were either discharged or ...
- Foods high in conjugated linoleic acids can enrich breast milk.
- Magazine article from: Women's Health Weekly August 14, 2008 700+ words
...healthful fatty acids in breast milk, reports a recent study in the journal Nutrition Research (see also Elsevier...foods to appear in breast milk. Conjugated linoleic...pumped samples of their breast milk every four to six hours...
- Lower Teen Blood Pressures Linked To Breast Milk.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Family Practice News Splete, Heidi April 1, 2001 700+ words
...who consumed breast milk in infancy had...Council Child hood Nutrition Research Centre, Lon...consumed the breast milk was significantly...the group fed breast milk (-3.2 mm...Agriculture's Human Nutrition Research Center, Boston...
- Breast-Milk Banks Push for More Federal Oversight.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News October 24, 2002 700+ words
...Nile virus can be transmitted through breast milk, the nation's human-milk banks...version of wet nurses -- that provide breast milk to babies whose mothers cannot nurse...growing industry (sales of donated breast milk are up 25 percent in the past year...
- Breast milk feeding and cognitive ability at 7-8 years.(Statistical Data...
- Magazine article from: Archives of Disease in Childhood Horwood, L J Darlow, B A Mogridge, N January 1, 2001 700+ words
...examine the association between duration of breast milk feeding and cognitive ability at 7-8...whether they had elected to provide expressed breast milk at birth and the total duration of breast milk feeding. Conclusions--These findings...
- International Breast Milk Project to Provide Donor Breast Milk for Babies in...
- Magazine article from: Traffic World May 14, 2007 700+ words
...11, 2007 -- The International Breast Milk Project, the first organization in the world to provide donor breast milk from the United States to babies...will be sending a shipment of donor breast milk to Durban, South Africa today...
- Effect of breast milk lead on infant blood lead levels at 1 month of...
- Magazine article from: Environmental Health Perspectives Ettinger, Adrienne S. Tellez-Rojo, Martha Maria Amarasiriwardena, Chitra Bellinger, David Peterson, Karen Schwartz, Joel Hu, Howard Hernandez-Avila, Mauricio October 1, 2004 700+ words
...infants may be exposed to lead from breast milk, but relatively few data exist with...studied the relationship between maternal breast milk lead and infant blood lead levels among...prepare, and analyze the samples of breast milk to minimize the potential for environmental...
- Chemical contaminants in breast milk: time trends and regional variability....
- Magazine article from: Environmental Health Perspectives Solomon, Gina M. Weiss, Pilar M. June 1, 2002 700+ words
...environmentally related chemical contaminants in breast milk spans several decades and dozens of...consistent protocols. Data on xenobiotics in breast milk are influenced by choices in sample...chemical contaminants may also enter breast milk. Despite these limitations, however...
- Chemical contaminants in breast milk and their impacts on children's health: an...
- Magazine article from: Environmental Health Perspectives Landrigan, Philip J. Sonawane, Babasaheb Mattison, Donald McCally, Michael Garg, Anjali June 1, 2002 700+ words
...best source of nutrition for infants. Breast milk contains the optimal balance of fits...and development. Unfortunately, breast milk is not pristine. Contamination of human...The finding of toxic chemicals in breast milk raises important issues for pediatric...
- Cytomegalovirus transmission from breast milk in premature babies: does it...
- Magazine article from: Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and Neonatal Edition Bryant, P. Morley, C. Garland, S. Curtis, N. September 1, 2002 700+ words
...evidence that CMV is commonly present in breast milk and is often transmitted to babies...babies. Interventions to remove CMV from breast milk are possible but may damage other important...non-transpiacental routes, such as breast milk, has been less well studied. Postnatal...
- Cancer patients rely on breast milk to help relieve symptoms.
- News wire article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Ostrov, Barbara Feder December 30, 2004 700+ words
...Barbara Feder Ostrov SAN JOSE, Calif. _ Breast milk isn't just for babies at the Mothers...United States. It distributes donated breast milk primarily to premature and low-birth...babies. However, it also will provide breast milk to adults with a doctor's prescription...
Source: HighBeam Research, Breast Milk Tied To Lower BP in Adolescence.