Probiotics and time to achieve full enteral feeding in human milk-fed and formula-fed preterm infants: Systematic review and meta-analysis

Nutrients

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Aceti, Arianna ^a,b   Gori, Davide ^b,c   Barone, Giovanni ^b,d   Callegari, Maria Luisa ^b,e   Fantini, Maria Pia ^b,c   Indrio, Flavia ^b,f,g   Maggio, Luca ^b,d,g   Meneghin, Fabio ^b,h   Morelli, Lorenzo ^b,e   Zuccotti, Gianvincenzo ^b,i   Corvaglia, Luigi ^a,b,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b Task Force on Probiotics of the Italian Society of Neonatology   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^g Study Group on Pain of the Italian Neonatology Society   (Italy)

^h V BUZZI CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Full enteral feeding; Human milk; Preterm infants; Probiotics; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTIFICIAL MILK; BACILLUS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM ANIMALIS; BREAST MILK; ENTERIC FEEDING; EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; HUMAN; INFANT; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREMATURITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES BOULARDII; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INFANT NUTRITION; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; META ANALYSIS; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; REPRODUCIBILITY; TIME FACTOR;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; INFANT FORMULA; INFANT NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; MILK, HUMAN; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PROBIOTICS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 85015598138     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nu8080471     Document Type: Review

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