Examining Tympanostomy Tube Risk by Breastfeeding Duration: Is Six Months Enough?

Cureus · 2026 · PMC12883229 · PMID 41664739

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Children breastfed for longer than six months demonstrated similarly lower rates of tube insertion, although these associations did not reach statistical significance in pairwise comparisons.

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