Evidence · Randomised trial
Enhanced feeding and diminished postnatal growth failure in very-low-birth-weight infants.
- Allied health
- Enteral feeding
- Growth
- Medical
- Nursing
- Nutrition and gastrointestinal
- Parenteral nutrition
This paper is from 2014, more than five years ago. Newer evidence may have been published since.
Summary
This study examined whether an enhanced supply of energy, protein, essential fatty acids and vitamin A reduces postnatal growth failure in very-low-birth-weight infants. Fifty infants were allocated to an intervention or control nutrition regimen, with the intervention group receiving higher energy and protein supplies over the first four weeks of life. Infants receiving enhanced nutrition grew along their birth percentiles for weight and head circumference. Baseline differences in birth weight and small-for-gestational-age proportion between groups are noted.
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