Could colic affect 49% of babies?

Posted by admin on November 28th, 2009 | No Comments »

Yale study of 98 babies shows 48 with colic

Admittedly this is a very old study , but…. I don’t know, it may be still valid.

Most percentages quoted on the internet vary from between 20-26% occurance of colic among infants. However this Yale pediatric study shows a 49% rate of colic in infants.

This had always thought that 26% may be low, I was thinking that it may be closer to 33% but I had never thought it would be as high as 49%.

Another interesting fact that was revealed by the study is that 22 of the 48 babies with colic came from families with stress problems. I think that that figure may be slightly skewed toward the way the study was made, however it is telling.

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/14/5/421

Not sure if we can really take it seriously as the sampling is quite low, and since I have not read

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