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Article: BREAST MILK ASSOCIATED WITH GREATER MENTAL DEVELOPMENT IN PRETERM INFANTS, FEWER RE-HOSPITALIZATIONS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- October 1, 2007
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The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' National Institutes of Health issued the following press release:
Extremely low birth weight premature infants who received breast milk shortly after birth, while still in intensive care units, had greater mental development scores at 30 months than did infants who were not fed breast milk, reported researchers in an NIH network. Moreover, infants fed breast milk were less likely to have been re-hospitalized after their initial discharge than were the infants not fed breast milk.
The study is a follow up to a previous study in which the same infants were tested at 18 months, showing that the breast-fed infants held the developmental gains ...