Effect of early preventive supplementation with calcium and phosphorus on metabolic bone disease in premature infants.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The objective was to study the effect of early preventive calcium and phosphorus supplementation on metabolic bone disease in preterm infants.

Methods

A retrospective analysis of 234 preterm infants with a gestational age < 32 weeks or birth weight < 1500 g who were hospitalized in the Neonatology Department of the Second Hospital of Shandong University from 01.2018 to 12.2020 was conducted. One hundred thirty-two premature infants hospitalized from 01.2018 to 06.2019 did not receive prophylactic calcium and phosphorus supplementation in the early postnatal period. These infants received calcium or phosphorus supplementation at the time of hypocalcaemia or hypophosphatemia diagnosis. One hundred two premature infants hospitalized from 07.2019 to 12.2020 received ea

SUBMITTER: Xu X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10921623 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature