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Infant feeding practices and autism spectrum disorder in US children aged 2–5 years: the national survey of children’s health (NSCH) 2016–2020

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relationship between infant feeding practices and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) among children aged 2–5 years in the United States (US). METHODS: Data from the 2016–2020 National Survey of Children’s Health, a nationally representative cross-sectional survey, were util...

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Autores principales: Zhan, Xiao-Ling, Pan, Ning, Karatela, Shamshad, Shi, Lei, Wang, Xin, Liu, Zhao-Yan, Jing, Jin, Li, Xiu-Hong, Cai, Li, Lin, Li-Zi
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10422796/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37568201
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13006-023-00580-2
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author Zhan, Xiao-Ling
Pan, Ning
Karatela, Shamshad
Shi, Lei
Wang, Xin
Liu, Zhao-Yan
Jing, Jin
Li, Xiu-Hong
Cai, Li
Lin, Li-Zi
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Pan, Ning
Karatela, Shamshad
Shi, Lei
Wang, Xin
Liu, Zhao-Yan
Jing, Jin
Li, Xiu-Hong
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description OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relationship between infant feeding practices and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) among children aged 2–5 years in the United States (US). METHODS: Data from the 2016–2020 National Survey of Children’s Health, a nationally representative cross-sectional survey, were utilized for this study. Questionnaires were administered to parents of children aged 2–5 years to gather information on ASD diagnosis, infant feeding practices, and demographic factors (e.g., child sex, ethnic group, and maternal age at birth). Logistic regression with sample weights was employed to assess the association between infant feeding practices and ASD, while controlling for demographic variables. Polynomial regression models were used to examine trends in exclusive breastfeeding and ever breastfeeding rates among children with and without ASD. RESULTS: A total of 35,050 children aged 2–5 years were analyzed, including 616 diagnosed with ASD, after excluding participants with missing information on breastfeeding and ASD diagnosis. Of these children with ASD, 76.6% (n = 472) had a breastfeeding history, with 66.6% (n = 410) engaged in partial breastfeeding and 10.1% (n = 62) exclusively breastfed. Adjusted odds ratios for each additional month of breastfeeding compared to never being breastfed were 0.99 (95% CI, 0.97–1.01). The adjusted odds ratios for breastfeeding durations of > 0–6 months, > 6–12 months, > 12–24 months, and > 24 months were 0.84 (95% CI, 0.51–1.36), 0.76 (95% CI, 0.42–1.35), 0.79 (95% CI, 0.43–1.45), and 0.66 (95% CI, 0.32–1.35), respectively. Compared to children who were never breastfed, the adjusted odds ratio for children who were ever breastfed was 0.79 (95% CI, 0.50–1.25). Among children with ASD, the proportion of ever breastfeeding declined from 82.0% in 2017 to 64.3% in 2020, while exclusive breastfeeding decreased from 12.0% in 2016 to 5.9% in 2020. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Although no significant association was found between infant feeding practices and ASD among US children aged 2–5 years, the rates of breastfeeding, particularly exclusive breastfeeding, were suboptimal among children with ASD. This highlights the need for specific policies and practices to promote and support breastfeeding among parents of children with ASD or those at high risk of having a child with ASD. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13006-023-00580-2.
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spelling pubmed-104227962023-08-13 Infant feeding practices and autism spectrum disorder in US children aged 2–5 years: the national survey of children’s health (NSCH) 2016–2020 Zhan, Xiao-Ling Pan, Ning Karatela, Shamshad Shi, Lei Wang, Xin Liu, Zhao-Yan Jing, Jin Li, Xiu-Hong Cai, Li Lin, Li-Zi Int Breastfeed J Research OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relationship between infant feeding practices and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) among children aged 2–5 years in the United States (US). METHODS: Data from the 2016–2020 National Survey of Children’s Health, a nationally representative cross-sectional survey, were utilized for this study. Questionnaires were administered to parents of children aged 2–5 years to gather information on ASD diagnosis, infant feeding practices, and demographic factors (e.g., child sex, ethnic group, and maternal age at birth). Logistic regression with sample weights was employed to assess the association between infant feeding practices and ASD, while controlling for demographic variables. Polynomial regression models were used to examine trends in exclusive breastfeeding and ever breastfeeding rates among children with and without ASD. RESULTS: A total of 35,050 children aged 2–5 years were analyzed, including 616 diagnosed with ASD, after excluding participants with missing information on breastfeeding and ASD diagnosis. Of these children with ASD, 76.6% (n = 472) had a breastfeeding history, with 66.6% (n = 410) engaged in partial breastfeeding and 10.1% (n = 62) exclusively breastfed. Adjusted odds ratios for each additional month of breastfeeding compared to never being breastfed were 0.99 (95% CI, 0.97–1.01). The adjusted odds ratios for breastfeeding durations of > 0–6 months, > 6–12 months, > 12–24 months, and > 24 months were 0.84 (95% CI, 0.51–1.36), 0.76 (95% CI, 0.42–1.35), 0.79 (95% CI, 0.43–1.45), and 0.66 (95% CI, 0.32–1.35), respectively. Compared to children who were never breastfed, the adjusted odds ratio for children who were ever breastfed was 0.79 (95% CI, 0.50–1.25). Among children with ASD, the proportion of ever breastfeeding declined from 82.0% in 2017 to 64.3% in 2020, while exclusive breastfeeding decreased from 12.0% in 2016 to 5.9% in 2020. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Although no significant association was found between infant feeding practices and ASD among US children aged 2–5 years, the rates of breastfeeding, particularly exclusive breastfeeding, were suboptimal among children with ASD. This highlights the need for specific policies and practices to promote and support breastfeeding among parents of children with ASD or those at high risk of having a child with ASD. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13006-023-00580-2. BioMed Central 2023-08-11 /pmc/articles/PMC10422796/ /pubmed/37568201 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13006-023-00580-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2023, corrected publication 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Zhan, Xiao-Ling
Pan, Ning
Karatela, Shamshad
Shi, Lei
Wang, Xin
Liu, Zhao-Yan
Jing, Jin
Li, Xiu-Hong
Cai, Li
Lin, Li-Zi
Infant feeding practices and autism spectrum disorder in US children aged 2–5 years: the national survey of children’s health (NSCH) 2016–2020
title Infant feeding practices and autism spectrum disorder in US children aged 2–5 years: the national survey of children’s health (NSCH) 2016–2020
title_full Infant feeding practices and autism spectrum disorder in US children aged 2–5 years: the national survey of children’s health (NSCH) 2016–2020
title_fullStr Infant feeding practices and autism spectrum disorder in US children aged 2–5 years: the national survey of children’s health (NSCH) 2016–2020
title_full_unstemmed Infant feeding practices and autism spectrum disorder in US children aged 2–5 years: the national survey of children’s health (NSCH) 2016–2020
title_short Infant feeding practices and autism spectrum disorder in US children aged 2–5 years: the national survey of children’s health (NSCH) 2016–2020
title_sort infant feeding practices and autism spectrum disorder in us children aged 2–5 years: the national survey of children’s health (nsch) 2016–2020
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10422796/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37568201
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13006-023-00580-2
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