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Pediatric Collections: Breastfeeding: Support Challenges and Benefits
Breastfeeding is a health care intervention of profound significance. Optimal breastfeeding practices, defined as exclusive breastfeeding through 6 months of age followed by continued breastfeeding with introduction of solid foods, save lives. Worldwide, in children 0–23 months, careful meta-analysis demonstrates a significantly decreased mortality rate with dose response in both all-cause and infection-related mortality among infants and children who received recommended breastfeeding, compared to those who received partial or no breastfeeding. Mothers benefit from optimal breastfeeding practices too, and recent analysis of data from high-, middle-, and low-income countries shows that universal optimal breastfeeding could prevent 20,000 deaths due to breast cancer (breastfeeding has been clearly shown to decrease risk of breast cancer in a dose-related manner). Breastfeeding may be the least expensive yet most cost-effective health intervention known.
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Nicole Hood, MPH; Brendan Flannery, PhD; Manjusha Gaglani, MBBS; Madhava Beeram, MD; Karen Wernli, PhD; Michael L. Jackson, PhD; Emily T. Martin, PhD, MPH; Arnold S. Monto, MD; Richard Zimmerman, MD, MPH; Jonathan Raviotta, PhD, CPH; Edward A. Belongia, MD; Huong Q. McLean, PhD; Sara Kim, MPH; Manish M. Patel, MD; Jessie R. Chung, MPH
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10.1542/peds.2022-059922
Case Report
Juhi Gupta, MD, DM; Prashant Jauhari, MD, DM; Atin Kumar, MD; Sheffali Gulati, MD, FRCPCH, FAMS; Biswaroop Chakrabarty, MD, DM; Aditya Kumar Gupta, MD, FNB; Rachna Seth, MD
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10.1542/peds.2022-057848
Commentary
Andrea T. Cruz, MD, MPH; James A. Seddon, MD, PhD
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10.1542/peds.2022-060180
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Maryline Bonnet, MD, PhD; Anne-Christine Nordholm, MD; Bob Ssekyanzi, MD; Onesmus Byamukama, MD; Patrick Orikiriza, MSc, PhD; Tobias Tusabe, MMED; Dan Nyehangane, MSc; Ivan Mugisha Taremwa, MSc; Esther Turyashemererwa, BSc; Eric Wobudeya, MD, MSc; Juliet Mwanga-Amumpaire, MEED; Ben J Marais, MBChB, MMed, PhD; Dorah Nampijja, MEED
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10.1542/peds.2022-057912
Commentary
Jeffrey P. Brosco, MD, PhD; Shirley Payne, PhD, MPH
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10.1542/peds.2022-060498
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Natalie Slopen, ScD; Candace Cosgrove, MPH; Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, PhD; Mark L. Hatzenbuehler, PhD; Jack P. Shonkoff, MD; Clemens Noelke, PhD
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10.1542/peds.2022-058316
Research Article
Shannon Chan, MD; Meghan Duck, MS, RNC-OB, CNS; Kate Frometa, CNM; Melissa Liebowitz, MD; Melissa G. Rosenstein, MD, MAS; Martha Tesfalul, MD; Marie-Coralie Cornet, MD; Katelin P. Kramer, MS, MD
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10.1542/hpeds.2022-006633
Research Briefs
John P. Pierce, PhD; Eric C. Leas, PhD; David R. Strong, PhD
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10.1542/peds.2022-059158
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Kimberly Hoover, MD; Matthew D. Di Guglielmo, MD, PhD; Brittany Perry, DO
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10.1542/peds.2022-059998
From the American Academy of Pediatrics Policy Statement
COMMITTEE ON PRACTICE AND AMBULATORY MEDICINE ; M. Hackell, MD, FAAP; Yvette M. Almendarez, MD, FAAP; Abeba M. Berhane, MD, FAAP; Patricia E. Cantrell, MD, FAAP; Lisa M. Kafer, MD, FAAP; Tomitra Latimer, MD, FAAP; Katherine S. Schafer, DO, FAAP; Alisa Skatrud, MPA; Robin Warner, MD, FAAP; Robert H. Wiskind, MD, FAAP; Mackenzie Magnus, MBA, MPH; BRIGHT FUTURES PERIODICITY SCHEDULE WORKGROUP ; Patricia E. Cantrell, MD, FAAP; Alex R. Kemper, MD, MPH, MS, FAAP; Alisa Skatrud, MPA; Robin Warner, MD, FAAP; Jane B. Bassewitz, MA; Kathryn M. Janies
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10.1542/peds.2023-061451
Commentary
Heidi M. Kloster, MD; Ryan J. Coller, MD, MPH
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10.1542/peds.2022-060878
Commentary
Amanda C. Schondelmeyer, MD, MSc; Clea D. Harris, MD; Christopher P. Bonafide, MD, MSCE
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10.1542/hpeds.2023-007147
Brief Report
Courtney Byrd, MD; Michelle Noelck, MD; Ellen Kerns, PhD; Mersine Bryan, MD, MPH; Michelle Hamline, MD, PhD; Matthew Garber, MD; Olivia Ostrow, MD; Valerie Riss, MD, MPH; Kristin Shadman, MD; Steven Shein, MD; Robert Willer, MD; Shawn Ralston, MD
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10.1542/hpeds.2022-006965
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Katie Moynihan, MBBS; Urbano L. França, PhD; David W. Casavant, MD; Robert J. Graham, MD; Michael L. McManus, MD, MPH
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10.1542/peds.2022-059014
From the American Academy of Pediatrics Clinical Report
Brad T. Tinkle, MD, PhD; Ronald V. Lacro, MD; Leah W. Burke, MD, FAAP; THE COUNCIL ON GENETICS ; Leah W. Burke, MD, MA, FAAP; Timothy A. Geleske, MD, FAAP; Ingrid A. Holm, MD, FAAP; Wendy J. Introne, MD, FAAP; Kelly Jones, MD, FAAP; Michael J. Lyons, MD, FAAP; Danielle C. Monteil, MD, FAAP; Amanda B. Pritchard, MD, FAAP; Pamela Lyn Smith Trapane, MD, FAAP; Samantha A. Vergano, MD, FAAP; Kathryn Weaver, MD, FAAP; Aimee A. Alexander, MS, CGC; Christopher Cunniff, MD, FAAP; Mary E. Null, MD; Melissa A. Parisi, MD, PhD, FAAP; Steven J. Ralston, MD; Joan Scott, MS, CGC; Paul Spire
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10.1542/peds.2023-061450
Commentary
Scott A. Lorch, MD, MSCE
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10.1542/peds.2022-060788
Article
Jiani Yu, PhD; Robert Tyler Braun, PhD; Amelia S. Bond, PhD; Ambar M. La Forgia, PhD; Arindam RoyChoudhury, PhD; Manyao Zhang, MS; Jin Kim, MS; Lawrence P. Casalino, MD, PhD
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10.1542/peds.2022-057931
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Michele Ybarra, MPH, PhD; Margaret Rosario, PhD; Elizabeth Saewyc, PhD; Carol Goodenow, PhD; Shira Dunsiger, PhD
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10.1542/peds.2022-059172
Brief Report
Aimee Robinson, MD; Jeffrey C. Winer, MD, MA, MSHS; Kristen Bettin, MD, Med
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10.1542/hpeds.2022-006914
Article
Ludovic Tréluyer, MD, MSc; Marie Chevallier, MD, PhD; Pierre-Henri Jarreau, MD, PhD; Olivier Baud, MD, PhD; Valérie Benhammou, PhD; Catherine Gire, MD; Laetitia Marchand-Martin, MSc; Stéphane Marret, MD, PhD; Véronique Pierrat, MD, PhD; Pierre-Yves Ancel, MD, PhD; Héloïse Torchin, MD, PhD
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10.1542/peds.2022-059138
