A Meta-Analysis of Breastfeeding and Osteoporotic Fracture Risk in The Females
A Meta-Analysis of Breastfeeding and Osteoporotic Fracture Risk in The Females
A Meta-Analysis of Breastfeeding and Osteoporotic Fracture Risk in The Females
DOI 10.1007/s00198-016-3753-x
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Osteoporotic fracture is influenced by combined effects case report; (3) participants were men, children, or adoles-
of inheritance, anthropometric factors, nutrient, and cents; and (4) articles reported on fractures due to fall
lifestyle [6–9]. Besides that, fracture is influenced by greater than standing height or severe trauma. And we have
gynecological and reproductive history among women added the above exclusion criteria in our meta-analysis.
[10]. Breastfeeding is an essential reproductive function In our meta-analysis, the searching and screening of all
among women, protecting mater against many diseases, retrieved studies were reviewed by two investigators
such as cancer and diabetes. [11–14]. As is known to all, indepen- dently. If the two investigators met bilaterally, it
breastfeeding has a deleterious effect on bone mass during was resolved by discussing with the third one.
lactation. After at least 6 months of lactation, 5–10 %
transient bone loss was found in the mother [15, 16], but it Data extraction
recovered completely after weaning [17, 18]. Moreover,
several epidemiologic studies indicated that prolonged Information from each study was extracted by two
breastfeeding was associated with increased bone mineral investigators independently, including first author’s name,
density (BMD) and lower prevalence of osteo- porosis in publication year, country of study population, follow-up years,
postmenopausal women [19, 20]. However, the long-term study design, age range, diagnostic method, location of
effects of breastfeeding on maternal bone health are still fracture, sample size, num- ber of cases, RRs (we presented
uncertain. Several studies suggested that breastfeeding was all results with RR for simplic- ity) with corresponding 95 %
a risk factor of osteoporotic fracture in the women [21, 22]. CIs, and adjustment for covari- ance. For dose-response
Several studies found that breastfeeding protected against analysis, the number of cases and par- ticipants (person-years)
osteoporotic fracture [23, 24], whereas others showed no and RR (95 % CI) for different durations of breastfeeding
as- sociation between breastfeeding and osteoporotic were also extracted. The median or mean level of different
fracture [25, 26]. We conducted this meta-analysis to durations of breastfeeding was assigned to the cor- responding
explore the potential association between breastfeeding and RR for every study. And units of breastfeeding time were
osteoporotic fracture and possible dose-response converted to month among different studies. If the upper
relationship between them. boundary of the highest duration of breastfeeding was not pro-
vided, we assumed that the boundary had the same amplitude
as the adjacent category. If available, we extracted
Methods multivariate- adjusted RRs with corresponding 95 % CIs.
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