Long chain polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation in infancy increases length- and weight-for-age but not BMI to 6 years when controlling for effects of maternal smoking

Prostaglandins Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids

Volumn 98, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-6

  Currie, L M ^a   Tolley, E A ^b   Thodosoff, J M ^a   Kerling, E H ^a   Sullivan, D K ^a   Colombo, J ^c   Carlson, S E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

BMI; Child; DHA; Growth; Infant; LCPUFA

Indexed keywords

ARACHIDONIC ACID; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; UNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; BABY FOOD; BODY BUILD; BODY GROWTH; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CALORIC INTAKE; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY INTAKE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG FORMULATION; FEMALE; FOOD COMPOSITION; HEIGHT FOR AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT FEEDING; INFANT NUTRITION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL SMOKING; MEDICAL HISTORY; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; WEIGHT FOR AGE; WEIGHT HEIGHT RATIO; ADMINISTRATION AND DOSAGE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ARTIFICIAL MILK; CHEMISTRY; CHILD; DIETARY SUPPLEMENT; DRUG EFFECTS; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SMOKING;

BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FORMULA; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PREGNANCY; SMOKING;

EID: 84929709825     PISSN: 09523278     EISSN: 15322823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plefa.2015.04.001     Document Type: Article

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