Journal article
Low rates of predominant breastfeeding in hospital after gestational diabetes, particularly among Indigenous women in Australia
CR Chamberlain, AN Wilson, LH Amir, K O'Dea, S Campbell, D Leonard, R Ritte, M Mulcahy, S Eades, R Wolfe
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health | ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC | Published : 2017
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Abstract
Objectives: To investigate rates of ‘any’ and ‘predominant’ breastfeeding in hospital among Indigenous and non-Indigenous women with and without gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). Methods: A retrospective study of singleton infants born from July 2007 to December 2010 at Cairns Hospital, Australia, following GDM pregnancy, using linked hospital and birth data (n=617 infants), with a subsample of medical record reviews (n=365 infants). Aggregate data were used to compare to breastfeeding rates among infants born following non-GDM pregnancy (n=7,894 infants). Results: More than 90% of all women reported any breastfeeding before hospital discharge. About 80% of women without GDM reported pred..
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Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
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Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia
Funding Acknowledgements
Catherine Chamberlain is supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Early Career Fellowship (1088813). Alyce Wilson's time and Rebecca Ritte's fellowship was supported by an NHMRC Program grant (631947). Sandra Campbell is supported by an NHMRC Early Career Fellowship (1071889). Dympna Leonard is supported by an NHMRC postgraduate scholarship (1092732). The Cairns Diabetes Centre provided financial assistance to enable reviews of medical records for this project.