"We have already shown that probiotics are highly effective in protecting vulnerable preterm babies from serious infections, ...

Research indicates that high-dose vitamin D improves bone health in very low birth weight preterm infants, highlighting its ...

Researchers found that probiotics help reduce antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the guts of very-low-birth-weight preterm ...

Level 2: Mid-level evidence Early continuous insulin infusion in very-low-birth-weight (VLBW) infants aged 1-7 days is associated with significantly increased mortality at 28 days and increased ...

Mira Huhtala, MD, from Turku University in Finland, and colleagues conducted a prospective cohort study of 189 VLBW preterm infants born between January 2001–December 2006 to investigate the ...

In some VLBW predisposed premature infants a higher adenosine release from unmyelinated axons, typical of an immature brain, may occur. Immature adenosine clearance represents a further possible ...

The study included 72,235 VLBW infants weighing 501 to 1,500 grams born in 558 Vermont Oxford Network hospital neonatal intensive care units between January 2007 and December 2008.

The average IQ of adults who were born very preterm (VP) or at a very low birth weight (VLBW) has been compared to adults born full term. Researchers have found VP/VLBW children may require ...

Very low birth weight (VLBW) infants fed fortified donor human milk as a supplement to maternal milk showed neurodevelopmental outcomes similar to those of infants supplemented with formula ...

We estimate the effects of VLBW and MLBW on children's mental and motor development scores, weight-for-age, weight-for-length, weight-for-height, and length-for-age z-scores at 9 months and 2 years.