Review Study Indicates Women Who Breastfeed Less Likely To Develop Diabetes And High Blood Pressure

eports researchers found in a review study that “mothers who breastfed for more than 12 months were 30% less likely to develop diabetes and 13% less likely to develop high blood pressure than women who didn’t nurse babies that long.” The study was published in JAMA Network Open and included “data from four previous studies looking at the connection between lactation and diabetes in a total of about 206,000 women.” https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-breastfeeding-benefits/breastfeeding-tied-to-lower-risk-of-diabetes-high-blood-pressure-idUSKBN1X027I