Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids and cognition in VLBW infants at 8 years: An RCT

Pediatrics

Volumn 135, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 972-980

  Almaas, Astrid Nylander ^a,b   Tamnes, Christian K ^b   Nakstad, Britt ^a   Henriksen, Christine ^b   Walhovd, Kristine B ^b   Fjell, Anders M ^b   Due Tønnessen, Paulina ^c   Drevon, Christian A ^b   Iversen, Per Ole ^b  

^a AKERSHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INFANT; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN; CHILD; FEMALE; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ARACHIDONIC ACID; BRAIN; CHILD; COGNITION; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACIDS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORGAN SIZE;

EID: 84930586308     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2014-4094     Document Type: Article

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