Banking for the future: investing in human milk

Neither the proportions neurologically impaired nor measured indices of mental and psychomotor development differed significantly between feeding groups, contrasting with the findings of a similar study by the same workers which examined outcomes in infants fed term or preterm formula. 8, 9 In relat...

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Published in:Archives of disease in childhood. Fetal and neonatal edition 2007-05, Vol.92 (3), p.F158-F159
Main Authors: Williams, Anthony F, Kingdon, Camilla C, Weaver, Gillian
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Babies
Baby foods
Banking
Breastfeeding & lactation
Confidence intervals
Cost analysis
donor breast milk
enteral feeding
Enterocolitis, Necrotizing - prevention & control
Health risks
Humans
Infant, Newborn
Infant, Very Low Birth Weight
Infants
Infections
Milk
Milk Banks - trends
Milk, Human
necrotising enterocolitis
Quality
Studies
very low birthweight
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Summary:Neither the proportions neurologically impaired nor measured indices of mental and psychomotor development differed significantly between feeding groups, contrasting with the findings of a similar study by the same workers which examined outcomes in infants fed term or preterm formula. 8, 9 In relation to other outcomes, limited follow-up data on adolescents suggest that early feeding with donor milk is associated with a pattern of reduced cardiovascular risk. 10, 11 Whether these differences result from early energy restriction, sodium restriction or other qualitative differences between human milk and formula seems uncertain. The authors concluded that donor milk offered little advantage over preterm formula, but demographic differences between groups were apparent despite randomisation. [...]any influence of dietary exposure must have been blunted because 21% of those infants allocated to the donor milk group were given preterm formula and results were analysed by intention to treat.
ISSN:1359-2998
1468-2052
DOI:10.1136/adc.2006.106716