Increasing serum calcium and magnesium concentrations in breast-fed infants: Longitudinal studies of minerals in human milk and in sera of nursing mothers and their infants
1982
Greer, Frank R. | Tsang, Reginald C. | Levin, Ronald S. | Searcy, John E. | Wu, Rebecca | Steichen, Jean J.
Longitudinal calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), and phosphorus (P) concentrations were measured in 18 nursing mothers' milk and in the sera of the mothers and their infants over a 6-month period. It was found that increases occurred in serum Ca and Mg concentrations of both infants and mothers over the study period, in association with a decreasing P content of the breast milk. It is suggested that the rise in serum Ca and Mg in the infants may be partly accounted for by a decrease in dietary phosphorus intake. (wz)
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