Table 4.

Savings due to lower prevalence of necrotising enterocolitis associated with changes in expressed breast milk or exclusive breastfeeding

	Children born in 2014			€	€
EBF (%)	EBF	No EBF	Total Cases	Total Costs	Savings
85	10,871	1918	243	1,455,538
90	11,510	1279	205	1,225,717	229,822
95	12,150	639	166	995,895	459,644
98	12,533	256	143	858,002	597,537
100	12,789	0	128	766,073	689,466

Note: we obtained the number of children born in 2014 in Spain from the Spanish National Statistical Institute data. In this table EBF refers to exclusive breastfeeding rates at hospital discharge . The prevalences of gastroenteritis necrotising enterocolitis (NE) among EBF children and AF children were 0.01 and 0.07, respectively. The unitary cost was €5990.05