Iron Supplementation Beneficial in Healthy, Full-Term Infants
Laurie Barclay, MD
Oct. 6, 2003 — Otherwise healthy infants born without iron deficiency benefit
from iron supplementation, according to the results of an intervention trial
published in the October issue of Pediatrics.
"Iron is required for many relevant central nervous system processes, the
most studied being myelination and dopaminergic functioning," write Betsy Lozoff,
MD, from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and colleagues. "Evidence
for a cause-effect relationship between poorer behavioral/developmental outcome
and early iron deficiency remains equivocal."
DID DR. LOZOFF WRITE THIS STATEMENT IN THIS RESEARCH OR IN SOME OTHER
ARTICLE? WHAT IS THE CONTEXT FOR THE STATEMENT?
In this study, healthy, full-term Chilean infants without iron-deficiency
anemia at six months were assigned to high- or low-iron groups or to high- or
no-added-iron groups. At 12 months of age, the prevalence of iron-deficiency
anemia and behavioral and developmental outcomes did not differ between high- or
low-iron groups. They were therefore combined to form an iron-supplemented
group consisting of 1,123 infants for comparison with the no-added-iron group
consisting of 534 infants.
HEALTHY BABIES WERE ASSIGNED TO A POSSIBILITY OF 4 GROUPS; ALL OF THEM
STAYED HEALTHY? WHERE DID THIS OTHER GROUP OF 534 COME FROM? HOW WAS
EVERYBODY FED?
It looks as though every baby was formula fed, doesn't it?
Is this a total crock wearing the costume of a research study for
Hallowe'en?
warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CIMI, CCE, craniosacral therapy
Adjunct faculty, Union Institute and University, Maternal and Child Health:
Lactation Consulting
Supporting the WHO Code and the Mother Friendly Childbirth Initiative
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