Effect of nutritionally modified infant formula on academic performance: linkage of seven dormant randomised controlled trials to national education data.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare differences in academic performance between adolescents who were randomised in infancy to modified or standard infant formula.

Design

Linkage of seven dormant randomised controlled trials to national education data.

Setting

Five hospitals in England, 11 August 1993 to 29 October 2001, and schools in England, September 2002 to August 2016.

Participants

1763 adolescents (425 born preterm, 299 born at term and small for gestational age, 1039 born at term) who took part in one of seven randomised controlled trials of infant formula in infancy.

Interventions

Nutrient enriched versus standard term formula (two trials), long chain polyunsaturated fatty acid (LCPUFA) supplemented versus unsupplemented formula (two trials), high versus low ir

SUBMITTER: Verfurden ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8579423 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature