Effects of a dairy product fortified with multiple micronutrients and omega-3 fatty acids on birth weight and gestation duration in pregnant Chilean women

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 30-40

  Mardones, Francisco ^a   Urrutia, Maria Teresa ^a   Villarroel, Luis ^a   Rioseco, Alonso ^a   Castillo, Oscar ^a   Rozowski, Jaime ^a   Tapia, Jose Luis ^a   Bastias, Gabriel ^a   Bacallao, Jorge ^b   Rojas, Ivan ^c  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS DE LA HABANA   (Cuba)

^c Southeast Metropolitan Public Health Service   (Chile)

Author keywords

Birth weight; Food supplementation; Gestation duration; Maternal nutrition; Multiple micronutrients; Omega 3 fatty acids

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; TRACE ELEMENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRY PRODUCT; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCIDENCE; MATERNITY WARD; MILK; NORMAL HUMAN; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILE; DAIRY PRODUCTS; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-3; FEMALE; FOOD, FORTIFIED; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMATOLOGY; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MICRONUTRIENTS; MILK; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 36849017979     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980007000110     Document Type: Article

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