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Deaths and years of life lost due to suboptimal breastfeeding among children in the developing world: a global ecological risk assessment

Document type:	Article
Topic:	Breastfeeding, Morbidity, Mortality
Author:	Lauer JA et al. Pub Health Nut
Date published:	June 2006

Deaths and years of life lost due to suboptimal breastfeeding among children in the developing world: a global ecological risk assessment. Lauer JA, Betran AP, Barros AJD and de Onis M. Pub Health Nut. 2006; 9(6):673-685

This paper extends the work by the Bellagio group. The paper describes a global ecological risk assessment of deaths and years of life lost due to suboptimal breast-feeding among children in the developing world. It found that attributable fractions for deaths due to diarrhoeal disease and lower respiratory tract infections are 55% and 53%, respectively, for the first six months of infancy, 20% and 18% for the second six months, and are 20% for all-cause deaths in the second year of life. The authors concluded that globally, as many as 1.45 million lives (117 million years of life) are lost due to suboptimal breast-feeding in developing countries.

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