Relationship between exclusive breastfeeding and brain-derived neurotrophic factor in children.

Carlos Berlanga-MacíasMairena Sánchez-LópezMontserrat Solera-MartínezAna Díez-FernándezInmaculada Ballesteros-YáñezCarlos A Castillo-SarmientoIsabel A Martínez-OrtegaVicente Martínez-Vizcaino

Published in: PloS one (2021)

These findings suggest that exclusive breastfeeding does not have a significant positive association on BDNF from eight to 11 years, since children who were exclusively breastfed did not have significantly higher BDNF levels than those who were not exclusively breastfed. Likewise, BDNF levels were not found to be negatively affected by hormonal development. Future research should examine the influence of exclusive breastfeeding on BDNF over the different developmental stages.

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