| Autor: |
Bell KA; Department of Pediatric Newborn Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA., Cherkerzian S; Department of Pediatric Newborn Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA., Drouin K; Department of Pediatric Newborn Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA., Matthews LG; Department of Pediatric Newborn Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA., Inder TE; Department of Pediatric Newborn Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA., Prohl AK; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.; Computational Radiology Laboratory, Department of Radiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA., Warfield SK; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.; Computational Radiology Laboratory, Department of Radiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA., Belfort MB; Department of Pediatric Newborn Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. |
| Abstrakt: |
Point-of-care human milk analysis is now feasible in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and allows accurate measurement of macronutrient delivery. Higher macronutrient intakes over this period may promote brain growth and development. In a prospective, observational study of 55 infants born at <32 weeks’ gestation, we used a mid-infrared spectroscopy-based human milk analyzer to measure the macronutrient content in repeated samples of human milk over the NICU hospitalization. We calculated daily nutrient intakes from unfortified milk and assigned infants to quintiles based on median intakes over the hospitalization. Infants underwent brain magnetic resonance imaging at term equivalent age to quantify total and regional brain volumes and fractional anisotropy of white matter tracts. Infants in the highest quintile of energy intake from milk, as compared with the lower four quintiles, had larger total brain volume (31 cc, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 5, 56), cortical gray matter (15 cc, 95%CI: 1, 30), and white matter volume (23 cc, 95%CI: 12, 33). Higher protein intake was associated with larger total brain (36 cc, 95%CI: 7, 65), cortical gray matter (22 cc, 95%CI: 6, 38) and deep gray matter (1 cc, 95%CI: 0.1, 3) volumes. These findings suggest innovative strategies to close nutrient delivery gaps in the NICU may promote brain growth for preterm infants. |
