Anna C Tottman, Jane M Alsweiler, Frank H Bloomfield, Greg D Gamble, Yannan Jiang, Myra Leung, Tanya Poppe, Benjamin Thompson, Trecia A Wouldes, Jane E Harding
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to determine whether a new nutrition protocol designed to increase early protein intakes while reducing fluid volume in infants born very preterm was associated with altered neurodevelopment and growth in childhood. METHODS: A retrospective, observational cohort study of children born <30 weeks' gestation or <1500 g and admitted to the neonatal unit, National Women's Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand, before and after a change in nutrition protocol...
January 2020: Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition