Most moderate-to-late–preterm infants need nutritional support until they are feeding exclusively on their mother’s breast milk. Evidence to guide nutrition strategies for these infants is lacking. We ...

Preterm infants face unique challenges in achieving optimal growth and neurodevelopment compared to term‐born peers. Nutritional strategies in the neonatal period are integral to promoting adequate ...

Previous studies in preterm infants have shown that probiotic supplementation has enhanced mucosal barrier function and limited growth of gastrointestinal bacteria. 5 However, data on the ...

Which factors most influence the risk of stunting in premature infants? The graph shows which factors (clinical and nutritional) had the greatest impact on the AI model's predictions. Positive values ...

November is Prematurity Awareness Month, a time to celebrate the progress that has been made for premature babies nationwide. These are some of the smallest, most fragile patients. And one of the ...

A large-scale survey of published studies associatesd probiotics with a favorable benefit-to-risk ratio for prevention of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) although it did not rule out a small risk of ...

Parenteral nutrition (PN)-associated cholestasis (PNAC) is frequently diagnosed in premature infants; however, not all PN-exposed infants develop PNAC. We propose that, in premature infants receiving ...

Artificial intelligence shows promise as a predictive tool that can provide assistance in defining a nutritional plan for preterm infants. This is the concept of an innovative study recently published ...

This is the first study to directly explore the relationship between PNAC susceptibility, the microbiome, and fecal bile acids in preterm infants. The microbiome and bile acid patterns identified here ...

A landmark international study conducted by UNC Greensboro researchers has found "significant variations" in the nutritional composition of donor human milk across five countries. The findings could ...