Breastfeeding according to new research helps to improve the long-term heart structure and function for preterm infants.

Research also suggested that breastfeeding helps reduced risk of asthma, childhood obesity, childhood leukemia, eczema, and ear infections in infants.

The team of researchers (Dr. Adam Lewandowski, of the Cardiovascular Clinical Research Facility at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, and colleagues), enrolled 102 adults in their early to mid-20s who, since birth, had been part of an earlier study that assessed how different infant feeding practices influenced health and later enrolled another 102 adults within the same age bracket who were born at full term for comparison.

The researchers found that adults who had been born preterm had poor heart function and reduced heart volume, compared to those who had been born at full term. They also found out that preterm adults who had exclusive breastfeeding as an infant had better heart volume and function than those who had formula-feeding.


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