Can the duration of breastfeeding affect oral health on adulthood?

IF 0.9 4区医学 Q3 DENTISTRY, ORAL SURGERY & MEDICINE

Community dental health Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-12 DOI:10.1177/0265539X251365727

Danah Buali, Elsa K Delgado-Angulo

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Abstract

Objective: This study aims to explore the association between breastfeeding duration and self-perceived oral health at age 46 while accounting for various sociodemographic and lifestyle factors.

Methods: This is a secondary data analysis of the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70), which follows the lives of individuals born in the UK during a single week in 1970. Information on breastfeeding duration was collected via interviews and categorized as: never, less than 3 months, and 3 months or more. Self-perceived oral health at age 46 was dichotomized into "good" (excellent, very good, good) and "poor" (fair, poor) based on the responses to a single question on a self-administered questionnaire. Covariates included cohort member (CM)'s sex, marital status, education level, and social class in addition to maternal education, father's social class and family ethnicity. Logistic regression modelling was used to assess the association between breastfeeding duration and self-perceived adult oral health.

Results: The unadjusted model showed that breastfeeding for 3 months or over reduced the odds of poor self-perceived oral health by 20% (95% CI: 0.67-0.95). This association was completely explained by sociodemographic characteristics.

Conclusion: Despite the well documented benefits of breastfeeding, the duration of breastfeeding did not appear to influence the self-perceived oral health of the participants at age 46.

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母乳喂养的持续时间会影响成年后的口腔健康吗？

目的：在考虑各种社会人口和生活方式因素的情况下，探讨母乳喂养时间与46岁女性自我口腔健康的关系。方法：这是对1970年英国队列研究（BCS70）的二次数据分析，该研究跟踪了1970年在英国出生的个体在一周内的生活。通过访谈收集母乳喂养持续时间的信息，并将其分类为：从不、少于3个月和3个月或更长时间。根据对自我管理问卷上一个问题的回答，将46岁时自我感知的口腔健康分为“好”（极好、很好、好）和“差”（一般、差）。协变量包括队列成员（CM）的性别、婚姻状况、教育水平和社会阶层，以及母亲的教育程度、父亲的社会阶层和家庭种族。使用Logistic回归模型来评估母乳喂养时间与自我感知的成人口腔健康之间的关系。结果：未经调整的模型显示，母乳喂养3个月或以上可使自我感觉口腔健康状况不佳的几率降低20% （95% CI: 0.67-0.95）。这种联系完全可以用社会人口学特征来解释。结论：尽管母乳喂养有充分的益处，但母乳喂养的持续时间似乎并没有影响46岁参与者自我感知的口腔健康。

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Community dental health 医学-牙科与口腔外科

CiteScore

2.20

自引率

11.80%

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审稿时长

6-12 weeks

期刊介绍： The journal is concerned with dental public health and related subjects. Dental public health is the science and the art of preventing oral disease, promoting oral health, and improving the quality of life through the organised efforts of society. The discipline covers a wide range and includes such topics as: -oral epidemiology- oral health services research- preventive dentistry - especially in relation to communities- oral health education and promotion- clinical research - with particular emphasis on the care of special groups- behavioural sciences related to dentistry- decision theory- quality of life- risk analysis- ethics and oral health economics- quality assessment. The journal publishes scientific articles on the relevant fields, review articles, discussion papers, news items, and editorials. It is of interest to dentists working in dental public health and to other professionals concerned with disease prevention, health service planning, and health promotion throughout the world. In the case of epidemiology of oral diseases the Journal prioritises national studies unless local studies have major methodological innovations or information of particular interest.