Long-term Follow-up of Very-low-birth-weight Infants in Taiwan
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Malnutrition in very low birth-weight, pre-term infants.
When a very low birth-weight, pre-term infant is compared with a foetus o i equivalent gestational age in utero it becomes apparent that he is suffering from malnutrition, and is at times close to death from starvation. There is evidence for this from a variety of sources and it is my purpose to present some of this evidence and to consider the problems we have encountered with pre-term babies ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Pediatrics & Neonatology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1875-9572
DOI: 10.1016/j.pedneo.2013.11.001