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Date: | Tue, 20 May 1997 15:05:42 +0100 |
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At a conference yesterday, we speculated on the rate of true mammary gland
insufficiency. Since lactation success is fundamental to survival, we
wondered what the "failure rate" is for other essential organs: liver,
heart, kidneys, pancreas.
Is there a failure rate that tends to be fairly constant for these other
organs? If so, it seems logical that lactational insufficiency occurs at
about the same rate. Anyone know? What we *were* pretty sure of was that
the failure rate for other essential organs isn't nearly as high as 1
percent! ("Failure", I assume, would be failure before reproduction;
evolution doesn't care if your liver gives out after you've procreated :-)
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Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC, LLLL Ithaca, NY
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