Eighteen-month Follow-up of Infants Fed Evaporated Milk Formula

In parts of Canada including Newfoundland and Labrador and among Aboriginal peoples, infants still consume evaporated milk (EM) formulas for cultural and economic reasons. At 3 and 6 months, full-term infants fed EM (n= 30) received low intakes of iron, thiamine, selenium and had higher weight veloc...

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Veröffentlicht in:Canadian journal of public health 1999-07, Vol.90 (4), p.240-243
Hauptverfasser: Friel, James K., Andrews, Wayne L., Edgecombe, Colin, McCloy, Ursulla R., Belkhode, Suresh L., L'Abbe, Mary R., Mercer, Claude N., McDonald, Allison C.
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Zusammenfassung:In parts of Canada including Newfoundland and Labrador and among Aboriginal peoples, infants still consume evaporated milk (EM) formulas for cultural and economic reasons. At 3 and 6 months, full-term infants fed EM (n= 30) received low intakes of iron, thiamine, selenium and had higher weight velocity than breastfed (BF, n= 29) infants. EM infants had greater anemia, lowered transketolase activity (thiamine) and lowered glutathione peroxidase (selenium) activity (p
ISSN:0008-4263
1920-7476
DOI:10.1007/bf03404124