dc.contributor.author | Natland Fagerhaug, Tone | |
dc.contributor.author | Forsmo, Siri | |
dc.contributor.author | Jacobsen, Geir W. | |
dc.contributor.author | Midthjell, Kristian | |
dc.contributor.author | Andersen, Lene Frost | |
dc.contributor.author | Nilsen, Tom Ivar Lund | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-01-06T07:25:26Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-04-27T14:04:57Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-01-06T07:25:26Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-04-27T14:04:57Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
dc.identifier.citation | BMC Public Health 2013, 13 | nb_NO |
dc.identifier.issn | 1471-2458 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2387659 | |
dc.description.abstract | Background: Recent studies suggest that lactation has long-term effects on risk for cardiovascular disease in
women, but the effects on cardiovascular mortality are less well known.
Method: In a Norwegian population-based prospective cohort study, we studied the association of lifetime duration
of lactation with cardiovascular mortality in 21,889 women aged 30 to 85 years who attended the second
Nord-Trøndelag Health Survey (HUNT2) in 1995–1997. The cohort was followed for mortality through 2010 by a
linkage with the Cause of Death Registry. Adjusted hazard ratios (HR) for death from all causes and cardiovascular
disease were calculated using Cox regression.
Results: During follow-up, 1,246 women died from cardiovascular disease. Parous women younger than 65 years
who had never lactated had a higher cardiovascular mortality than the reference group of women who had
lactated 24 months or more (HR 2.77, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.28, 5.99). There was some evidence of a
U-shaped association, where women who reported lactating 7–12 months had a HR of 0.55 (95% CI: 0.27, 1.09).
No clear associations were observed among women 65 years or older.
Conclusions: Excess cardiovascular mortality rates were observed among parous women younger than 65 years
who had never lactated. These findings support the hypothesis that lactation may have long-term influences on
maternal cardiovascular health. | nb_NO |
dc.language.iso | eng | nb_NO |
dc.publisher | BioMed Central | nb_NO |
dc.rights | Navngivelse 3.0 Norge | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/no/ | * |
dc.title | A prospective population-based cohort study of lactation and cardiovascular disease mortality: the HUNT study | nb_NO |
dc.type | Journal article | nb_NO |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | nb_NO |
dc.date.updated | 2015-01-06T07:25:26Z | |
dc.source.volume | 13 | nb_NO |
dc.source.journal | BMC Public Health | nb_NO |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1186/1471-2458-13-1070 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1065133 | |
dc.description.localcode | © Natland Fagerhaug et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2013. This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | nb_NO |