A randomized controlled trial of early dietary supply of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids and mental development in term infants

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 174-181

  Birch, Eileen E ^a   Garfield, Sharon ^a   Hoffman, Dennis R ^a   Uauy, Ricardo ^a   Birch, David G ^a  

^a RETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; FATTY ACID;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LIPID COMPOSITION; MALE; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARACHIDONIC ACID; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACIDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FOOD; LIPIDS; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0034098652     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0012162200000311     Document Type: Article

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