科研之友
微信
新浪微博
Facebook
分享链接
摘要
objective: to review the recent medical literature on nutrition of extremely low birth weight infants, focusing on nutritional disorders and their effects on childhood, adolescence and adulthood. sources of data: an extensive review of the related literature was performed using medline, the cochrane database of systematic reviews and the best evidence database. summary of the findings: there is a growing body of evidence that early nutritional practices may affect short-term growth and development outcome. in addition, these practices may play a role in determining adult health and disease. there is still much to be learned about safe and efficacious nutrient administration in preterm infants; about techniques to assess the effect of different nutritional strategies; and about the long-term effects of these regimens on development outcome, growth and disease. conclusion: despite recent progress in neonatal nutrition, there is a lack of basic and clinical research to better define the nutritional requirements of preterm infants and the best way to meet these requirements, avoiding long-term undesirable consequences.
