– There is no reason for excessive concern that 1.5-year-olds in Västerbotten eat baby food fruit pouches so often that they become overweight, says Ellen Lundkvist at the Department of Clinical Science and first author of the study. “The study confirms what we already know, that the mother’s BMI is the variable that is most […]
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The 20th Biennial Congress of the International Society for Research in Human Milk and Lactation (ISRHML) took place between 16-20 August 2021. It was originally scheduled to take part in Aula Medica of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm in August 2020, but the pandemic situation meant this was not possible in 2020. The event was […]
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Itay Zamir of Umeå University has won the Jean Rey prize at the digital 6th World Congress of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (WCPGHAN) for his abstract presentation ‘The very low birth weight infants – glucose and hormonal profiles over time (LIGHT) study: Glucose levels at 36 weeks postmenstrual age’. The Jean Rey prize is […]
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The N4 Preterm Team has published new results in a prestiguous journal, on the effects of neonatal hyperglycaemia and insulin treatment on long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes in children born extremely preterm. This observational Swedish national cohort study, based on the EXPRESS cohort, used prospectively and retrospectively collected data and neurodevelopmental assessment was performed at 6.5 years […]
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A sub-study shows that pregnant women in Västerbotten gain more weight and are less physically active during their pregnancy than recommended. This increases the risk of emergency caesarean section and bleeding, and is associated with poorer perceived health during pregnancy. – This is an important finding as it shows that there are opportunities to improve […]
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The Mega Donna Mega study is now published in JAMA Pediatrics. This Swedish randomized clinical trial has showed that enteral supplementation with arachidonic acid (AA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) reduced the risk of severe retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) by 50% in extremely preterm infants. In addition, the group that received enteral AA and DHA supplementation […]
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Researcher Anna Chmielewska and the SIDBI study were featured on SVT news in Västerbotten this week. The aim of the project is to establish if iron supplements improves brain development in mainly breastfed infants at 4-9 months of age. Watch the TV clip here (in Swedish): https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/vasterbotten/umeaforskare-i-studie-om-jarntillskott-for-bebisar
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Hi Jonas! When did you start and what were you doing before you joined NorthPop? I started working with NorthPop in autumn 2019 in combination with starting work as a medical doctor at the pediatric clinic at Umeå university hospital. What do you do for the NorthPop study? I will be joining NorthPop as a […]
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