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The additional analysis involving parity showed that women who had given birth to two babies and breastfed them had lower odds of MetS than those who never breastfed (p &lt; 0.05), although there was no significant difference among women who breastfed for &gt;18 months. Women who had given birth to at least three children and breastfed for 1–6 and 13–18 months had lower odds of MetS and increased triglyceride concentration (p &lt; 0.05). Moreover, participants having breastfed for 1–6 months were found to have a reduced risk of abdominal obesity compared with those who had not breastfed (p &lt; 0.05). Breastfeeding is associated with lower prevalence of MetS in perimenopausal women and can be recommended as a way of reducing the risk of MetS and its components.</jats:p>","journal":"Nutrients","year":2020,"id":589517,"datarank":0.9910979794865336,"base_score":3.2188758248682006,"endowment":3.2188758248682006,"self_citation_contribution":0.48283137373023016,"citation_network_contribution":0.5082666057563034,"self_endowment_contribution":0.48283137373023016,"citer_contribution":0.5082666057563034,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":24,"citer_count":18,"citers_with_citation_signal":14,"citers_with_endowment":14,"datacite_reuse_total":6,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1508300,"name":"Elzbieta Ciesla","orcid":null,"position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1508301,"name":"Martyna Gluszek-Osuch","orcid":null,"position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1508302,"name":"Malgorzata Lysek-Gladysinska","orcid":"0000-0002-0327-3202","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1508303,"name":"Iwona Wawrzycka","orcid":null,"position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":919840,"name":"Stanisław Głuszek","orcid":"0000-0001-7752-0459","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1508299,"name":"Edyta Suliga","orcid":"0000-0003-3063-0380","position":0,"is_corresponding":false}],"reference_count":0,"raw_metadata":{"has_enrichment":true,"resolved":true,"title":"Breastfeeding and Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome among Perimenopausal Women","abstract":"<jats:p>Little is known about the long-term benefits of breastfeeding for mother’s metabolic health. 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