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Washington, May 13 : Women who breastfeed for more than a year are less likely to develop rheumatoid arthritis, according to a new study.
Swedish scientists found that simply having children and not breastfeeding did not seem to have a protective effect.
They also discovered that oral contraceptives, which are suspected to protect against the disease because they contain hormones that are raised in pregnancy, did not have the same effect.
The researchers compared 136 women with rheumatoid arthritis with 544 women of a similar age without the disease.
They found that those who had breast fed for longer were much less likely to get rheumatoid arthritis.
Women who had breastfed for 13 months or more were half as likely to get rheumatoid arthritis as those who had never breast-fed.
Those who had breast fed for one to 12 months were 25 per cent less likely to get the disease.
The proportion of women breast-feeding for more than six months has increased dramatically over the past 30 years.
The authors concluded that it was difficult to say whether there was a connection between higher rates of breast feeding and a corresponding fall in the number of women affected by rheumatoid arthritis, but that the results of the study provided yet another reason why women should continue breast feeding.
The study is published online ahead of print in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.
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