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The speed of increasing milk feeds: a randomised controlled trial

Abstract:
Background: In the UK, 1–2% of infants are born very preterm (<32 weeks of gestation) or have very low birth weight (<1500 g). Very preterm infants are initially unable to be fed nutritional volumes of milk and therefore require intravenous nutrition. Milk feeding strategies influence several long and short term health outcomes including growth, survival, infection (associated with intravenous nutrition) and necrotising enterocolitis (NEC); with both infection and NEC b... Expand abstract
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Peer reviewed

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10.1186/s12887-017-0794-z

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Nuffield Department of Population Health
Sub department:
NPEU
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Author
Publisher:
BioMed Central
Journal:
BMC Pediatrics More from this journal
Volume:
17
Issue:
1
Article number:
39
Publication date:
2017-02-01
Acceptance date:
2017-01-27
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ISSN:
1471-2431
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pubs:676272
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uuid:b4d38ae7-9e24-4242-aa38-cc7cd0a1d517
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pubs:676272
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676272
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2017-02-07

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