| Summary: | Obesity is a difficult situation to be handled so that prevention and recognition
of risk and protective factors is important. Breastmilk is the best source of nutrition
for infants. Breastmilk cause the baby to grow naturally and tend to gain weight
according to their needs which may reduce the incidence of obesity in children. The
aim of this study is to determine the protective effect of breastfeeding on the
incidence of obesity in children aged 6 to 8 years old and know the effect of
breastfeeding duration on the incidence of obesity in children aged 6 to 8 years.
The design of this study was case control study to compares the cases of
children obese group with control group of non-obese children. The factors measured
in this study is a history of breastfeeding and infant formula milk and duration of
breastfeeding. After the measurement of nutritional status, subjects are given a
questionnaire and data obtained from questionnaires were analyzed to determine the
influence of breastfeeding as a protective factor of obesity in children aged 6 to 8
years.
There were 136 children aged 6 to 8 years old consisting of 68 obese subjects
and 68 non-obese subjects with matching age and sex consisted of 47 (69.1%) boys
and 21 (30.9%) girls. Significant differences have seen in comparison of formula
milk with exclusively breastfeeding until 6 months of age on the incidence of obesity
in children aged 6 to 8 years (OR 6.29, 95% CI: 4.67 to 7.73, p = 0.007), as well as
when compared between partial breastfeeding and non-exclusive breastfeeding with
exclusive breastfeeding (OR 4.70, 95% CI: 3.96 to 5.43, p = 0.001 and OR 4.86, 95%
CI: 4.13 to 5.59
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