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ReviewAdvances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.)2025

Future Applications of Human Milk Reference Values for Nutrients: A Global Resource for Maternal and Child Nutrition Research.

Sophie E Moore, Lindsay H Allen, Gilberto Kac, MILQ Study Consortium

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Review in Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Sophie E MooreDepartment of Women & Children's Health, King's College London, London, United Kingdom; MRC Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Fajara, The Gambia. Electronic address: sophie.moore@kcl.ac.uk.
Lindsay H AllenUSDA, ARS Western Human Nutrition Research Center, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States; Institute for Global Nutrition, Department of Nutrition, University of California, Davis, CA, United States.
Gilberto KacNutritional Epidemiology Observatory, Josué de Castro Nutrition Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
MILQ Study Consortium

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The World Health Organization recommends exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 mo of life as human milk is considered to be the optimal form of nutrition to support infant health and development. Human milk provides many nutrient and non-nutrient bioactive compounds to young infants, including micronutrients. In contexts where diets are nutritionally poor, the concentration of micronutrients in human milk is lower, impacting infant's supply. However, understanding when lower values indicate the need for interventions and then evaluating the impact of interventions on maternal nutritional status and milk nutrient concentrations has been challenged by the absence of reliable reference values (RVs) for nutrient concentrations in human milk. The multicenter Mothers, Infants, and Lactation Quality (MILQ) and Early-MILQ studies were developed to establish evidence-based RVs for human milk nutrients. This paper presents and discusses the potential utility of these RVs as an international reference for global maternal and child health research.

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Infant Nutritional Physiological PhenomenaMaternal Nutritional Physiological PhenomenaMilk, HumanNutrientsBreast FeedingFemaleHumansInfantInfant, NewbornLactationMicronutrientsNutritional StatusReference ValuesWorld Health OrganizationMicronutrientsNutrientsbreast milkhuman milkinfantslactationmacronutrientsmicronutrientsnutrient reference valuesnutrition interventionsrecommended nutrient intakesupplementation

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