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Breast Milk May Reduce Incidence of Infections in Very Low Birth Weight Infants

Published in Women's Health Weekly, September 14th, 1998

Breast milk provided to very low birth weight, preterm infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) may decrease the chances of these infants acquiring infections in the NICU by 53 percent to 57 percent, according to a recent study published by the American Academy of Pediatrics on its Pediatrics electronic pages

Researchers from Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., and Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, studied the medical records of 212 very low birth weight, preterm infants who were hospitalized in the Georgetown NICU between January 1992 and September 1993. They compared the...

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