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Multi‐nutrient fortification of human milk for preterm infants

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, May 2016
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Title
Multi‐nutrient fortification of human milk for preterm infants
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, May 2016
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd000343.pub3
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Authors

Jennifer VE Brown, Nicholas D Embleton, Jane E Harding, William McGuire

Abstract

Exclusively breast milk-fed preterm infants may accumulate nutrient deficits leading to extrauterine growth restriction. Feeding preterm infants with multi-nutrient fortified human breast milk rather than unfortified breast milk may increase nutrient accretion and growth rates and may improve neurodevelopmental outcomes. To determine whether multi-nutrient fortified human breast milk improves important outcomes (including growth and development) over unfortified breast milk for preterm infants without increasing the risk of adverse effects (such as feed intolerance and necrotising enterocolitis). We used the standard search strategy of the Cochrane Neonatal Review Group. This included electronic searches of the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL; 2016, Issue 2), MEDLINE, EMBASE and the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) (until February 2016), as well as conference proceedings and previous reviews. Randomised and quasi-randomised controlled trials that compared feeding preterm infants with multi-nutrient (protein and energy plus minerals, vitamins or other nutrients) fortified human breast milk versus unfortified (no added protein or energy) breast milk. We extracted data using the standard methods of the Cochrane Neonatal Review Group. We separately evaluated trial quality, data extracted by two review authors and data synthesised using risk ratios (RRs), risk differences and mean differences (MDs). We assessed the quality of evidence at the outcome level using the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) approach. We identified 14 trials in which a total of 1071 infants participated. The trials were generally small and weak methodologically. Meta-analyses provided low-quality evidence that multi-nutrient fortification of breast milk increases in-hospital rates of growth (MD 1.81 g/kg/d, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.23 to 2.40); length (MD 0.12 cm/wk, 95% CI 0.07 to 0.17); and head circumference (MD 0.08 cm/wk, 95% CI 0.04 to 0.12). Only very limited data are available for growth and developmental outcomes assessed beyond infancy, and these show no effects of fortification. The data did not indicate other potential benefits or harms and provided low-quality evidence that fortification does not increase the risk of necrotising enterocolitis in preterm infants (typical RR 1.57, 95% CI 0.76 to 3.23; 11 studies, 882 infants). Limited available data do not provide strong evidence that feeding preterm infants with multi-nutrient fortified breast milk compared with unfortified breast milk affects important outcomes, except that it leads to slightly increased in-hospital growth rates.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 3 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 320 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 48 15%
Researcher 42 13%
Student > Bachelor 39 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 36 11%
Student > Postgraduate 20 6%
Other 63 19%
Unknown 76 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 113 35%
Nursing and Health Professions 59 18%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 14 4%
Psychology 9 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 2%
Other 29 9%
Unknown 94 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 37. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 January 2024.
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#1,097,747
of 25,457,858 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#2,229
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Outputs of similar age
#18,756
of 313,462 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#69
of 239 outputs
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