The study examines the effects of a new nutrition guideline aimed at preventing unhealthy body mass index (BMI) in premature infants with gestational ages of 32 weeks or less.
It found that increasing feeding volumes resulted in fewer instances of growth failure (weight below the 10th percentile) and reduced occurrences of disproportionately low BMI among infants.
While the guideline showed promise in preventing growth issues, it had a limited impact on the proportion of infants classified as disproportionately large at discharge.