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The inter-relationship between nutrition and chronic neonatal lung disease (neonatal CLD) is complex. The most important factor in the aetiology of neonatal CLD is of course low gestational age but intra-uterine growth retardation is also a contributory factor [12, 17, 18]. Both of these factors may act partly through specific nutritional deficiencies. In particular, deficiencies of nutrients which contribute to the anti-oxidant defences, have been implicated in the aetiology of neonatal CLD [4].
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Ryan, S. Nutrition in neonatal chronic lung disease. Eur J Pediatr 157 (Suppl 1), S19–S22 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00014282
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00014282