Maternal docosahexaenoic acid supplementation and fetal accretion

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 135-145

  Montgomery, Colette ^a   Speake, Brian K ^b   Cameron, Alan ^a   Sattar, Naveed ^a   Weaver, Lawrence T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Docosahexaenoic acid; Infant; Mother; Polyunsaturated fatty acid

Indexed keywords

DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; FATTY ACID; FISH OIL; OLEIC ACID; PLACEBO;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG CAPSULE; ERYTHROCYTE; FATTY ACID BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FETUS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GESTATION PERIOD; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATERNAL BLOOD; MATERNAL CARE; NEWBORN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; FETUS BLOOD; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACIDS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HUMANS; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0041368548     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/BJN1079/2003888     Document Type: Article

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