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Table 3 Risk factors1 for partial (or no) breastfeeding at one month of life in the MAL-ED study

From: Early interruption of exclusive breastfeeding: results from the eight-country MAL-ED study

Factor

OR (95% CI)

Prelacteal feeding

1.48 (1.04, 2.10)

Not fed colostrum

1.63 (1.01, 2.62)

Primipara

1.38 (1.10, 1.75)

Put to the breast within 1 h

0.81 (0.64-1.03)

  1. 1Estimated with generalized estimation equations (GEE) with sites included as random effects. This is the reduced model including variables with p < 0.10, see text for details.