VITAMIN E BLOOD LEVELS IN PREMATURE AND FULL TERM INFANTS
1 The Departments of Pediatrics and Anatomy, The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, N.Y.
Newborn infants showed serum tocopherol levels approximately one-fifth those of the maternal levels.
During the first six days after birth, the serum tocopherols of breast-fed infants increased much more rapidly than those of bottle-fed infants. These differences were still evident at 1 to 4, and at 5 to 8, months of age.
Premature infants fed an artificial formula low in vitamin E showed a rapid decline in serum tocopherol levels.
These studies confirm and amplify other evidence that placental transfer of vitamin E is decidedly limited while mammary transfer is much more extensive.
Submitted on July 1, 1950
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