The Value of Human Milk Compared with Other Feeds for Premature Infants
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Outcomes of human milk-fed premature infants.
Significant benefits to infant host defense, sensory-neural development, gastrointestinal maturation, and some aspects of nutritional status are observed when premature infants are fed their mothers' own milk. A reduction in infection-related morbidity in human milk-fed premature infants has been reported in nearly a dozen descriptive, and a few quasi-randomized, studies in the past 25 years. H...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 1954
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.29.145.178