BACKGROUND The Drug Resource Enhancement against AIDS and Malnutrition (DREAM) program is a large antiretroviral therapy treatment program financed by the Treatment Acceleration Program (TAP) of the World Bank. In addition to provision of antiretroviral treatment to individuals infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in sub-Saharan Africa, one major aspect of the DREAM program is nutri...

OBJECTIVE To assess the intergenerational repetition of breastfeeding duration in a cohort of adolescent mothers who had been prospectively followed up since birth. METHODS All hospital births occurred in Pelotas (N=5,914), a Southern Brazilian city, in 1982 were studied prospectively. The cohort was visited in 1984 and 1986, and information on feeding practices was gathered. In 2001, a searc...

BACKGROUND Observational studies have indicated that differences in the composition of human milk and infant formula yield benefits in cognitive development and early growth for breastfed infants. OBJECTIVE The objective was to test the hypothesis that feeding an infant formula with reduced energy and protein densities and supplemented with bovine milk fat globule membrane (MFGM) reduces diff...

1Educational Development Centre, Meshed University of Medical Sciences, Meshad, Islamic Republic of Iran. 2Department of Social Medicine, Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. Received 29/11/01; accepted 21/07/02 ABSTRACT A cohort study was conducted in the Islamic Republic of Iran between January 1997 and February 1998 to compare the growth and morb...

Objectives: To determine the frequency of different feeding practices among infants presenting with acute diarrhea.
 Material and Methods: This cross sectional study was carried out from October 2019 to March 2020 in Paediatrics Out-Patient Department Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar. Infants diarrhea were included after meeting inclusion exclusion criteria. Sampling done by consecutive ...

INTRODUCTION Antiretroviral drug interventions significantly reduce the risk of HIV transmission to infants through breastfeeding. We report diarrhoea prevalence and all-cause mortality at 12 months of age according to infant feeding practices, among infants born to HIV-infected and uninfected mothers in South Africa. METHODS A non-randomised intervention cohort study that followed both HIV-i...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Studies about defecation patterns have been mostly conducted on infants who were breastfed in a short term but were fed predominantly with formula. In this study, defecation patterns of 125 infants, most of them being breastfed during 12th month were evaluated. MATERIALS AND METHODS Frequency, consistency and color of the stool were analyzed in relation to the feeding pattern ...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Vitamin D deficiency with a resurgence of rickets and tetany are increasingly being reported in young infants from temperate regions, African Americans and also from India. The data on vitamin D status of healthy term breastfed Indian infants and mothers are scant. Therefore, we undertook this study to determine the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency [s...

Postnatal growth retardation is inevitable in preterm infants, the more immature the infant the greater the degree of postnatal growth retardation at hospital discharge. After hospital discharge, several studies have shown that growth is poorer in preterm infants fed a standard term formula than those fed a nutrient-enriched infant formula. This is not surprising because term formulas are desig...

BACKGROUND Data are limited on usual sodium and potassium intakes relative to age-specific recommendations and the sodium:potassium ratio in infants and preschoolers, especially among those aged <2 y, who are black or breastfed. OBJECTIVE The usual sodium intake above the Tolerable Upper Intake Levels (ULs), potassium intakes above Adequate Intakes (AIs), the sodium:potassium ratio, and sodiu...