<Of the 70,148 singleton infants, 65 infants required surgery for PS, 29 of whom were bottle-fed before PS diagnosis.>

I just don't get it, no doubt due to my inability to make sense of the rest of the statistics.

Of the 65 said to require surgery for PS, if you subtract the 29 bottle fed babies seems to = 36 of them then who were apparently breastfed to the satisfactoy definition of the researchers, who still, nevertheless, required PS surgery. 

Considering the large group of children they began with, I can't see how then that this adds up to the conclusion then that bottle feeding seems to be statistically a more remarkable contributor to pyloric stenosis?? Or breastfeeding so much less of a contributor?

Is this someone's "spin" of the week to get a controversy going in the news over breastfeeding? 

Better I focus my cogitation on other BF matters!

K. Jean Cotterman RNC-E, IBCLC
WIC Volunteer LC      Dayton OH 

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