Nutrition Support Practices for Infants Born <750 Grams or <25 Weeks Gestation: A Call for More Research

Overview

Journal Int J Environ Res Public Health

Publisher MDPI

Specialties Environmental Health
Public Health

Date 2022 Sep 9

PMID 36078670

Authors

Melissa Thoene

Ann Anderson-Berry

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Abstract

With advances in medical care and efforts to care for continually smaller and younger preterm infants, the gestational age of viability has decreased, including as young as 21 or 22 weeks of gestation [...].

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