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Formula feeding results in better growth and weight gain compared to donor breast milk in preterm and low birthweight infants, with a greater risk in necrotising enterocolitis
  1. Alexandra Shan Lu1,
  2. Catherine M Harrison2
  1. 1 Department of Neonatology, Hull Royal Infirmary, Hull, UK
  2. 2 Department of Neonatology, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Alexandra Shan Lu, Neonatology, Hull Royal Infirmary, Hull HU3 2JZ, UK; alexandralu{at}doctors.org.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2019-318459

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    Review ofQuigley M, Embleton ND, McGuire W. Formula vs donor breast milk for feeding preterm or low birth weight infants. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2019;22:CD002971.

    Study design

    Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis of 12 studies using multiple electronic data sources including Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Ovid MEDLINE, Ovid Embase, OVID maternity and infant care database and cumulative index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature as well as Clinicaltrials.gov and WHO’s international trials registry and platform. Randomised or quasi-randomised controlled trials were included.

    Study question

    Patients: Infants born before 37 weeks gestation or with a birth weight of less than 2500 g. A total of 1879 infants in 12 separate trials (six randomised, six quasi-randomised) were included

    Intervention: Enteral feeding with formula versus donor breast milk as the sole diet or supplementary to maternal breast milk

    Outcome measures: Growth, neurodevelopment, all-cause mortality, necrotising enterocolitis and invasive infections

    Follow-up: Variable; majority of studies used data until discharge from hospital, of the four studies that had longer-term outcome data, follow-up ranged from 15 months corrected age to 7.5–8 years. …

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    • Contributors AL wrote the first draft of the Picket, CH edited and added to the picket.

    • Patient consent for publication Not required.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.