I just reread the study.  21% of babies were switched from donor milk to
preterm formula.

These were babies 23-29 weeks gestation with mean of 27 weeks gestation.
This is certainly not my area of expertise.

But, the stated aim was to evaluate ³short-term outcomes² rather than long
term outcomes.

Because of the amount of money involved in selling preterm formula and
formula in general, this study has moved from being a footnote or a step in
the evaluation of premie nutrition to a headline grabber.  The authors are
less to blame than the media who are eager to breathe controversy into what
should have been a minor study.

I haven¹t seen the news, but I hope that Dr. Schanler is ³on² and letting
people know that this study is being misinterpreted.

Let¹s make that clear and stop defending and debating this one piece of
research.  

By the way, Dr. Schanler, Dr. Lau Charles Imo, and some of the others
involved have previously done research on fortifiers funded by Wyeth and
Ross.

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/100/2/240


http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/103/6/1150

These and other studies were not uniformly laudatory of fortifiers and,
again, these researchers are good people who support human milk for human
babies.

Jay Gordon

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