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Univariate analyses were carried out against the following variables: sex of the infant, hospital, age of the mother, urban/rural residence, religious affiliation, social class, ethnicity, literacy, educational level, gainful employment (work), living with the infant's father, and breastfeeding of previous infant.
These results are not intended to assign a percentile to an individual infant for clinical use.
Breastfeeding is associated with a lower incidence of infant diarrhoea and respiratory disease, particularly in less developed countries [ 1 ] . A recent ecological study on breastfeeding showed that more than half of all infant deaths from diarrhoeal disease and acute respiratory infections in Latin America are preventable by exclusive breastfeeding in infants aged 0-3 months and partial breastfeeding throughout the remainder of infancy [ 2 ] . The theoretical basis for this may be a combination of the nutritional and immunomodulatory effects of human milk [ 3 ] . Since 2001, the WHO recommends exclusive breastfeeding up to the age of 6 months (World Health Assembly Resolution 55.
Indeed, the medical community came to recognize that thousands of seemingly healthy infants inexplicably died in their beds each year, and they coined the name Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or SIDS, for these cases.
(Structural linguists do not like to deal with meaning, either, satisfied that the meaning of a word is the sum of its contexts—a perfectly valid argument if one allows context to include one's mother telling an infant, Here, darling, eat another spoon of applesauce.
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