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Mar Romero-Lopez1,2, Mamta Naik3, Lindsay F Holzapfel4

  • 1Department of Pediatrics, Division of Perinatal-Neonatal Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center Houston, McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX, USA. maria.del.mar.romerolopez@uth.tmc.edu.

Pediatric research
|August 27, 2024
PubMed
概括

大多数美国新生儿重症监护室 (NICU) 给极度早产 (EP) 婴儿每天400 IU维生素D. 需要进一步的试验来确定EP婴儿的最佳维生素D补充剂,比较当前的做法与更早,更高的剂量.

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