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Health care support
for families in the study
All TRIGR families have access and continued support
by a local team of doctors, nurses and dietitians. Perhaps
because of this support and the information provided,
more mothers were able to exclusively breastfeed for
significantly longer periods than expected in the nationwide
Finnish TRIGR pilot study. This effort developed and
tested the complex infrastructure required for a very
large disease prevention trial such as TRIGR. The trial
will also be able to analyze whether, as expected, exclusive
breastfeeding can also reduce the risk to children of
developing type 1 diabetes.
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