Greetings All,

This open access new study found sex-specific benefits from human milk in regard to cardiac health.  

Title:  Content of n-3 LC-PUFA in Breast Milk Four Months Postpartum is Associated with Infancy Blood Pressure in Boys and Infancy Blood Lipid Profile in Girls.

In:  Nutrients 2019, 11(2), 235; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu11020235

Authors:  Signe Bruun, Lenie van Rossem, Lotte Lauritzen, Steffen Husby, Lotte Neergaard Jacobsen, Kim F. Michaelsen, Maria Boysen Sandberg, Ken D. Stark, Jan Sørensen and Gitte Zachariassen.

From the abstract:  "Based on 336 mother-child dyads, high n-3 LC-PUFA in breast milk was inversely associated with systolic and diastolic BP in
boys at 4 months (β = −20.0 (95% CI = −33.4, −6.7), p = 0.004 and β = −10.2 (95% CI = −19.8, −0.5), p = 0.039, respectively); inversely associated with HDL cholesterol, and directly associated with triglyceride in girls at 4 months (β = −0.7 (95% CI = −1.1, −0.3), p = 0.001 and β = 3.1 (95% CI = 1.0, 5.2), p = 0.005, respectively). Associations observed at the later time points were non-significant. Furthermore, we observed sex-specific changes over time in both size and direction of the associations. Our results indicate that early intake of n-3 LC-PUFA can affect early development in cardiometabolic factors such as BP and BLP in a sex-specific manner."

With best regards,

Debbie

Debra Swank, RN BSN IBCLC
Program Director
More Than Reflexes Education
Ocala, Florida USA
http://www.morethanreflexes.org

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