Perinatal programming prevention measures.

Over the past 10 years, there has been outstanding scientific progress related to perinatal programming and its epigenetic effects in health, and we can anticipate this trend will continue in the near future. We need to make use and apply these achievements to human neurodevelopment via prevention interventions. Based on the concept of the interaction between genome and ambiome, this chapter proposes low-cost easy-implementation preventive strategies for maternal and infant health institutions.

Early and aggressive nutritional strategy (parenteral and enteral) decreases postnatal growth failure in very low birth weight infants.

Objective: To compare postnatal growth and nutritional deficits after the implementation of two different nutritional strategies in two consecutives periods of time.

Methods: An early and aggressive nutritional regimen was used in a cohort of 117 very low birth weight (VLBW) infants. Amino acids were administered at the rate of 1.