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Mother's Own Milk Compared With Formula Milk For Feeding Preterm Or Low Birth Weight Infants: Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis, Natalie A. Strobel, Claire Adams, Daniel R. Mcaullay, Karen M. Edmond
Mother's Own Milk Compared With Formula Milk For Feeding Preterm Or Low Birth Weight Infants: Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis, Natalie A. Strobel, Claire Adams, Daniel R. Mcaullay, Karen M. Edmond
Research outputs 2022 to 2026
Objectives: We assessed the effect of feeding preterm or low birth weight infants with infant formula compared with mother's own milk on mortality, morbidity, growth, neurodevelopment, and disability. Methods: We searched Medline (Ovid), Embase (Ovid), and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Studies to October 1, 2021. Results: Forty-two studies enrolling 89 638 infants fulfilled the inclusion criteria. We did not find evidence of an effect on mortality (odds ratio [OR] 1.26, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.91-1.76), infection (OR 1.52, 95% CI 0.98-2.37), cognitive neurodevelopment (standardized mean difference -1.30, 95% CI -3.53 to 0.93), or on growth parameters. Formula milk feeding …