I have not read the full articles that Fiona refers to in her post, but
I wonder how anyone can claim anything about correlation between blood
pressure in adults and bfing as a baby. Several problems:
1. I suspect that there are many many factors that affect blood
pressure. then there is the interplay between factors, many of which we
are probably unaware of.
2. There are so many confounding factors that could come into play
between infancy and adulthood with regard to blood pressure (not to
mention whatever genetic factors there are that have nothing to do with
bfing or any other confounding factors) that you would need a HUGE
sample in order to be able to control for all the other factors and
still say something about the relationship between bfing and blood
pressure.
3. How was bfing defined in the studies. If the people they studied are
adults now how do they know with any accuracy what their bfing
experience was 20,30, 50 years ago.
As I said, I haven't looked at the article itself or the research it
was meta-analyzing, but the whole thing sounds suspect to me. There are
so many other things we CAN say about bfing why do we need to pull out
this one whose results are unclear at best?

Naomi Bar-Yam
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