The New England journal of medicine
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study
Early Amino Acids in Extremely Preterm Infants and Neurodisability at 2 Years.
Whether higher parenteral amino acid intake improves outcomes in infants with extremely low birth weight is unclear. ⋯ In infants with extremely low birth weight, extra parenteral amino acids at a dose of 1 g per day for 5 days after birth did not increase the number who survived free from neurodisability at 2 years. (Funded by the New Zealand Health Research Council and others; ProVIDe Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry number, ACTRN12612001084875.).