Effects of Early Nutrition on Premature Infants (2nd Edition)
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Pediatric Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 September 2025 | Viewed by 926
Special Issue Editor
Interests: newborn; nutrition; perinatal asphyxia; inflammatory reaction in the newborn; growth and development of very low birth weight newborns and retinopathy of the prematurity
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Dear Colleagues，
You are invited to submit articles to this Special Issue, “Effects of Early Nutrition on Premature Infants (2nd Edition)”. It has long been known that malnutrition, whether intrauterine or extrauterine, causes changes in brain development, leading to delays in the development of children and adolescents. We also know that growth and development are linked. Intrauterine and extrauterine malnutrition are becoming increasingly prevalent, especially in low- and middle-income countries, due to socioeconomic problems such as absent or inadequate prenatal care, a lack of adequate vaccination, low caloric and/or protein intake, and prematurity. Intrauterine malnutrition is also prevalent in developed countries, mainly due to problems occurring during pregnancy, such as assisted fertilization, multiple pregnancies, and pre-eclampsia. Low intake of essential nutrients for good intra- and extrauterine brain development also occurs in wealthy populations and is affected by the above factors.
Therefore, malnutrition is a global public health problem highlighting a growing gap between low- and high-income countries in somatic growth and neurodevelopment. We must delve deeper into this topic by studying its consequences and prevention and looking closely at the effects of nutrition in this population.
Prof. Dr. Renato S. Procianoy
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nutrition
- child development
- malnutrition
- intrauterine growth
- extrauterine growth
- cerebral development
- pregnancy nutrients
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