Ethnicity and breastfeeding influence infant gut bacteria

Friday, June 2, 2017 - 13:02 in Health & Medicine

A new study looked at the microbial population in the gastrointestinal tract of infants at a formative stage of life when metabolic set points are being established. The study analyzed the stool samples from 173 white Caucasian and 182 South Asian one-year-olds recruited from two birth cohort studies.

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