Exclusive breast-feeding, the early-life microbiome and immune response, and common childhood respiratory illnesses

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BACKGROUND: The impact of breast-feeding on certain childhood respiratory illnesses remains controversial.

OBJECTIVE: We sought to examine the effect of exclusive breast-feeding on the early-life upper respiratory tract (URT) and gut microbiome, the URT immune response in infancy, and the risk of common pediatric respiratory diseases.

METHODS: We analyzed data from a birth cohort of healthy infants with prospective ascertainment of breast-feeding patterns and common pediatric pulmonary and atopic outcomes. In a subset of infants, we also characterized the URT and gut microbiome using 16S ribosomal RNA sequencing and measured 9 URT cytokines using magnetic bead-based assays.

RESULTS: Of the 1949 infants enrolled, 1495 (76.71%) had 4-year data. In adjusted analyses, exclusive breast-feeding (1) had an inverse dose-response on the ⍺-diversity of the early-life URT and gut microbiome, (2) was positively associated with the URT levels of IFN-α, IFN-γ, and IL-17A in infancy, and (3) had a protective dose-response on the development of a lower respiratory tract infection in infancy, 4-year current asthma, and 4-year ever allergic rhinitis (odds ratio [95% CI] for each 4 weeks of exclusive breast-feeding, 0.95 [0.91-0.99], 0.95 [0.90-0.99], and 0.95 [0.92-0.99], respectively). In exploratory analyses, we also found that the protective association of exclusive breast-feeding on 4-year current asthma was mediated through its impact on the gut microbiome (P = .03).

CONCLUSIONS: Our results support a protective causal role of exclusive breast-feeding in the risk of developing a lower respiratory tract infection in infancy and asthma and allergic rhinitis in childhood. They also shed light on potential mechanisms of these associations, including the effect of exclusive breast-feeding on the gut microbiome.

Errataetall:

CommentIn: J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2022 Sep;150(3):587-588. - PMID 35934084

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:150

Enthalten in:

The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology - 150(2022), 3 vom: 15. Sept., Seite 612-621

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Rosas-Salazar, Christian [VerfasserIn]
Shilts, Meghan H [VerfasserIn]
Tang, Zheng-Zheng [VerfasserIn]
Hong, Qilin [VerfasserIn]
Turi, Kedir N [VerfasserIn]
Snyder, Brittney M [VerfasserIn]
Wiggins, Derek A [VerfasserIn]
Lynch, Christian E [VerfasserIn]
Gebretsadik, Tebeb [VerfasserIn]
Peebles, R Stokes [VerfasserIn]
Anderson, Larry J [VerfasserIn]
Das, Suman R [VerfasserIn]
Hartert, Tina V [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

16S rRNA sequencing
Allergic rhinitis
Asthma
Breast-feeding
Cytokines
Food sensitization
Gut
Immune response
Infancy
Journal Article
Lower respiratory tract infection
Microbiome
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Respiratory

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Date Completed 13.09.2022

Date Revised 16.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

CommentIn: J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2022 Sep;150(3):587-588. - PMID 35934084

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.jaci.2022.02.023

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM338139001