| Methods |
Design: prospective cohort.
Quality assessment
Control for confounding: B.
Follow‐up: C.
Blinding: C. |
| Participants |
135 healthy Finnish infants of atopic parents. |
| Interventions |
EBF = BF without cow milk‐based formula; occasional water permitted; solids introduced at about 6 months (n = 70).
MBF = BF with introduction of solids at about 3 months (n = 65). |
| Outcomes |
Atopic eczema and food allergy at 1 year; any atopy, atopic eczema, pollen allergy, asthma, food allergy, and allergy to animal dander at 5 years. |
| Notes |
Discrepancy between 1‐ and 5‐year follow‐up reports regarding sample sizes per group (inverted from 1 report to the other). |
| Risk of bias |
| Bias |
Authors' judgement |
Support for judgement |
| Allocation concealment (selection bias) |
Unclear risk |
D ‐ Not used |
