The effects of a dietary zinc supplement during lactation on longitudinal changes in maternal zinc status and milk zinc concentrations13
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Dietary zinc intakes, selected biochemical indices of zinc status, and milk zinc concentrations were determined at monthly intervals throughout lactation for 53 middle-income lactating women, 14 of whom received a daily supplement of 15 mg zinc. Overall mean dietary zinc intake for the non-supplemented group (NZS) was 10.7 ± 4.1 mg/day ( ± SD). The mean dietary zinc intake of the zinc supplemented group (ZS) was 12.2 ± 3.5 mg/day, with an additional 12.8 ± 1.5 mg/day from the supplement. For the NZS group, the highest mean plasma zinc concentration of 79 ± 10 i/dl, which occurred at month 4, was significantly less than the mean for non-lactating control women (86 ± 10 g/dl). ZS plasma zinc levels had a pattern similar to that of the NZS group for months 1-7. The rate of decline in milk zinc during lactation was significantly less for the ZS group compared to that of the NZS group (p = 0.02). It is concluded that milk zinc concentrations are influenced by maternal zinc intake within a physiological range and that the effects of low maternal intakes are most apparent with prolonged lactation. Am J C/in Nuir l985;41:560-570.
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تاریخ انتشار 2005