Maternal fish oil supplementation during lactation does not affect blood pressure, pulse wave velocity, or heart rate variability in 2.5-y-old children

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 136, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1539-1544

  Larnkjær, Anni ^a   Christensen, Jeppe H ^b   Michaelsen, Kim F ^a   Lauritzen, Lotte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Breast milk; Children; Fish oil; Heart rate variability

Indexed keywords

FISH OIL; OLIVE OIL; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOOD INTAKE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LACTATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PULSE WAVE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 33646760987     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jn/136.6.1539     Document Type: Article

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