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- Title
Supplementation with 200 mg/day docosahexaenoic acid from mid-pregnancy through lactation improves the docosahexaenoic acid status of mothers with a habitually low fish intake and of their infants.
- Authors
Bergmann, Renate L; Haschke-Becher, Elisabeth; Klassen-Wigger, Petra; Bergmann, Karl E; Richter, Rolf; Dudenhausen, Joachim W; Grathwohl, Dominik; Haschke, Ferdinand
- Abstract
The supply of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA, 22:6omega-3), important for fetal/infant neurodevelopment, depends on the maternal fatty acid (FA) status, which may be marginal in central Europe. Therefore, we investigated the effect of a daily vitamin/mineral supplement with and without 200 mg DHA from mid-pregnancy through lactation on the DHA concentrations in maternal and infant red blood cell phospholipids (RBC%), and in breast milk FA (%).
- Publication
Annals of nutrition & metabolism, 2008, Vol 52, Issue 2, p157
- ISSN
1421-9697
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1159/000129651