ArticleBMC infectious diseases2014
Protective effect of exclusive breastfeeding against hand, foot and mouth disease.
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- Risk Factors for Severe Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease in China: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2021Pooled it
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- Bayesian joint spatiotemporal modelling of primary infection and reinfection of HFMD at county level in Jiangsu, China, 2009-2023.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Antibody signatures in hospitalized hand, foot and mouth disease patients with acute enterovirus A71 infection.PLoS pathogens · 2023Article
- Current status of hand-foot-and-mouth disease.Journal of biomedical science · 2023Review
- Exclusive Breastfeeding and Childhood Morbidity: A Narrative Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Association of Antibiotic Use during the First 6 Months of Life with Body Mass of Children.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease: A Narrative Review.Recent advances in inflammation & allergy drug discovery · 2022Review
- Likelihood of infectious diseases due to lack of exclusive breastfeeding among infants in Bangladesh.PloS one · 2022Article
- A five-year retrospective study on the epidemiology of hand, foot and mouth disease in Sabah, Malaysia.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Spatial-temporal mapping and risk factors for hand foot and mouth disease in northwestern inland China.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2021Article
- The epidemiological risk factors of hand, foot, mouth disease among children in Singapore: A retrospective case-control study.PloS one · 2020Article
- Food insecurity and dietary diversity among lactating mothers in the urban municipality in the mountains of Nepal.PloS one · 2020Article
- The Clinical and Epidemiological Study of Children with Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease in Hunan, China from 2013 to 2017.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Association between gestational weight gain and exclusive breast-feeding for the first 6 months postpartum in Chinese women.Public health nutrition · 2019Article
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- Spatio-Temporal Pattern and Risk Factor Analysis of Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease Associated with Under-Five Morbidity in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region of China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2017Article
- A Case-control Study on Risk Factors for Severe Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Hand-Washing: The Main Strategy for Avoiding Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2016Article
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Abstract
backgroundInfants who are exclusively breastfed receive natural protection against some infectious agents. This study examined whether there was protective effect of exclusive breastfeeding on the occurrence of hand, foot and mouth disease, which was an emerging infectious disease among children in China.
methodsA community-based case-control study was carried out among children age 4 years or younger in Guangdong Province, China. Cases were newly diagnosed hand, foot and mouth disease. Controls were randomly sampled from healthy children from the nearby village. Unconditional logistic regression model was used to estimate the odds ratio (OR) for exclusive breastfeeding after adjusting for potential confounding factors.
resultsA total of 316 cases and 566 controls were included in the analysis. Significantly beneficial effect of exclusive breastfeeding during the first 6 months was observed for hand, foot and mouth disease occurrence. The overall OR was 0.63 (95% CI: 0.47-0.85) for exclusive breastfeeding compared with mixed feeding type. The age-specific analyses indicated that the protective effect persisted till the age of 28 months.
conclusionsThis study suggests that exclusive breastfeeding might have protective effect against HFMD infection among the children within 28 months of age.
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