A prospective population-based cohort study of lactation and cardiovascular disease mortality: the HUNT study

BMC Public Health

Tom Ivar Lund Nilsen²  Lene Frost Andersen⁴  Kristian Midthjell¹  Geir Wenberg Jacobsen³  Siri Forsmo³  Tone Natland Fagerhaug³ 

[1] Department of Public Health and General Practice, HUNT Research Centre, Forskningsveien 2, 7600 Levanger, Norway;Department of Human Movement Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Dragvoll 7491 Trondheim, Norway;Department of Public Health and General Practice, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, PO Box 8904 MTFS, 7491 Trondheim, Norway;Department of Nutrition, University of Oslo, Postboks 1046, Blindern 0317, OSLO, Norway

关键词: Maternal health;    Cardiovascular death;    Breastfeeding;   

Others  :  1161557
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2458-13-1070

 received in 2013-07-11, accepted in 2013-11-05,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Background

Recent studies suggest that lactation has long-term effects on risk for cardiovascular disease in women, but the effects on cardiovascular mortality are less well known.

Method

In a Norwegian population-based prospective cohort study, we studied the association of lifetime duration of lactation with cardiovascular mortality in 21,889 women aged 30 to 85 years who attended the second Nord-Trøndelag Health Survey (HUNT2) in 1995–1997. The cohort was followed for mortality through 2010 by a linkage with the Cause of Death Registry. Adjusted hazard ratios (HR) for death from all causes and cardiovascular disease were calculated using Cox regression.

Results

During follow-up, 1,246 women died from cardiovascular disease. Parous women younger than 65 years who had never lactated had a higher cardiovascular mortality than the reference group of women who had lactated 24 months or more (HR 2.77, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.28, 5.99). There was some evidence of a U-shaped association, where women who reported lactating 7–12 months had a HR of 0.55 (95% CI: 0.27, 1.09). No clear associations were observed among women 65 years or older.

Conclusions

Excess cardiovascular mortality rates were observed among parous women younger than 65 years who had never lactated. These findings support the hypothesis that lactation may have long-term influences on maternal cardiovascular health.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Natland Fagerhaug et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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