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Table 4 Savings due to lower prevalence of necrotising enterocolitis associated with changes in expressed breast milk or exclusive breastfeeding

From: The economic benefits of increasing breastfeeding rates in Spain

 

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

  1. 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