[Fatty acid composition of human milk from mothers of preterm and full-term infants].

Introduction: Human milk is an essential food for newborns and affects life in the long or short terms. Its composition is modified by nutritional status and maternal diet as well as by gestational age of the newborn. It provides human milk-fed infants with the medium-chain fatty acids which are a source of energy, and essential fatty acids and their metabolic derivatives which have been involved in the neural maturation.