Complementary feeding at 4 versus 6 months of age for preterm infants born at less than 34 weeks of gestation: a randomised, open-label, multicentre trial

• Main Authors: Shuchita Gupta, MD (Author), Ramesh Agarwal, DrDM (Author), Kailash Chandra Aggarwal, MD (Author), Harish Chellani, DrMD (Author), Anil Duggal, MD (Author), Sugandha Arya, MD (Author), Sunita Bhatia, DCH (Author), Mari Jeeva Sankar, DM (Author), Vishnubhatla Sreenivas, PhD (Author), Vandana Jain, MD (Author), Arun Kumar Gupta, MD (Author), Ashok K Deorari, MD (Author), Vinod K Paul, MD (Author), Chandra Kumar Natarajan, DM (Author), Ajay Singh, MSW (Author), Reena Kuriakose, MSW (Author), Faizan Mujeeb, MSW (Author), Kanaklata Gupta, PhD (Author), Farah Khan, MA (Author), Sukhram Babu, MSW (Author), Garima Dhankar, MPT (Author), Somi Suresh, MSc (Author), Anne Therasa, GNM (Author), Pawan Kumar Popli (Author), Ramesh Sharma (Author), Lalit Gupta (Author), Brijesh Kumar (Author), Vikas Yadav, MSc (Author), Chander Prakash Yadav, MPhil (Author), Pratibha Gupta, BCom (Author), Nisha Rani, BA (Author), Meenakshi, BCom (Author), Sant Lal, MBA (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2017-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary: Background: Evidence on the optimal time to initiation of complementary feeding in preterm infants is scarce. We examined the effect of initiation of complementary feeding at 4 months versus 6 months of corrected age on weight for age at 12 months corrected age in preterm infants less than...