1. Individualized Human Milk Fortification to Improve the Growth of Hospitalized Preterm Infants
- Author
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Jingran Ma, Lijuan Gou, Chen Wang, Dan-Hua Wang, Lejia Zhang, Zheng-Hong Li, Zhixing Sun, Kurt Schibler, and Meiying Quan
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Male ,Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,030309 nutrition & dietetics ,Fortification ,Medicine (miscellaneous) ,Gestational Age ,Weight Gain ,Body weight ,Enteral administration ,03 medical and health sciences ,Enteral Nutrition ,0302 clinical medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Infant, Very Low Birth Weight ,Prospective Studies ,Blood urea nitrogen ,0303 health sciences ,Nutrition and Dietetics ,Milk, Human ,business.industry ,Infant, Newborn ,Gestational age ,Hospitalization ,Very preterm ,Regimen ,Treatment Outcome ,Dietary Supplements ,Food, Fortified ,Female ,030211 gastroenterology & hepatology ,Dietary Proteins ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Weight gain ,Infant, Premature - Abstract
BACKGROUND Human milk (HM) is the first choice for preterm infants, but exclusive HM feeding is inadequate for the growth of very preterm infants. The hypothesis of this trial is that infants fed according to an individualized fortification regimen will have higher protein intake and improved weight gain velocity (WGV). METHODS A prospective, randomized, controlled study was conducted. Infants
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- 2019