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WASHINGTON, April 28 (Xinhua) – A study has shown that premature babies who consume bad milk have significantly higher levels of chemicals important for brain growth.
The study presented at the 2019 meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies underway in Baltimore recruited babies whose birth weight was very low (less than 1,500 grams) and whose gestational age was 32 weeks or less at birth.
The Children's National team collected data on right frontal white matter and cerebellum by proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
The brain white matter spectra showed significantly higher levels of inositol, a glucose-like molecule, in bad-fed babies, compared to formula-fed babies, according to the study.
Cerebellar spectra showed significantly higher creatine levels in badfed infants compared to formula fed infants.
In addition, the percentage of days fed to bad milk was badociated with significantly higher levels of creatine and choline, a water soluble nutrient.
Creatine facilitates the recycling of energy renewal of the cell. Thus, larger amounts of this metabolite resulted in faster changes and higher cell maturation, while choline is a marker of cell membrane turnover, according to the study.
"The key metabolite levels increase during the exponential growth period of the baby's brain," said Katherine Ottolini, pediatric specialist, the lead author of the study.
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