Table 4.
Feeding mode and hospitalization by age in infants aged 0–11·9 months from eight large cities in China, Maternal Infant Nutrition and Growth (MING) study, October 2011–March 2012
| Total illness (%) | Diarrhoea (%) | Respiratory disease (%) | Allergic disease (%) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | EBF | MBF | EFF | EBF | MBF | EFF | EBF | MBF | EFF | EBF | MBF | EFF | |
| Hospitalization | |||||||||||||
| 0–2·9 months | 671 | 3·9 | 6·3 | 8·4 | 0·8 | 0·0 | 0·0 | 1·6 | 2·5 | 3·9 | 0·8 | 0·4 | 0·4 |
| 3–5·9 months | 501 | 8·1 | 6·4 | 6·4 | 1·1 | 0·0 | 0·7 | 3·2 | 4·1 | 2·1 | 0·0 | 0·0 | 0·0 |
| 6–11·9 months | 482 | 12·1 | 8·4 | 9·7 | 1·0 | 0·0 | 0·0 | 10·2 | 4·2 | 4·8*,† | 0·0 | 0·0 | 1·6† |
EBF, exclusive breast-feeding; MBF, mixed feeding with breast milk and infant formula; EFF, exclusive formula-feeding.
Total illness included diarrhoea, respiratory disease, allergic disease and other illness.
*
P value from χ 2 test for trend <0·05 (EBF, MBF, EFF).
†
P value from χ 2 test <0·05 (EBF, MBF, EFF).