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Post-Discharge Nutrition in Preterm Infants

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The fundamental principle underlying nutritional support is that intake meets needs thereby ensuring the best outcome; in the case of the preterm infant, optimal growth and development. Achieving this goal is problematic and most, if not all very-low-birth-weight infants (VLBWI) are undernourished and under-grown at initial hospital discharge.

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Cooke, R.J. (2012). Post-Discharge Nutrition in Preterm Infants. In: Buonocore, G., Bracci, R., Weindling, M. (eds) Neonatology. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-1405-3_48

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