ω-3 fatty acid supplementation during pregnancy: For mother, baby, or neither?

Canadian Family Physician

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 817-818

  Dubnov Raz, Gal ^b   Finkelstein, Yaron ^a   Koren, Gideon ^a,c  

^a Motherisk Program   (Canada)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID;

BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY INTAKE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL CARE; REVIEW;

DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-3; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34547484383     PISSN: 0008350X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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