The Alberta BLOOM Study
@bloomstudy
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Clinical study of the microbiome of mothers and babies during pregnancy and childhood
Calgary, Alberta
Joined December 2018
New longitudinal study of preterm infants: higher #humanmilk consumption associated with better lung function across the first 2 years of life, in a dose-dependent manner 🤱🏽🫁🤓 https://t.co/pXU7p4l1b6
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• This cohort study of 180 preterm infants with birth weight < 1000 g found that exposure to human milk during hospitalization improves airway obstruction markers tPTEF/tE z-score over the first 2...
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Holly and her family's story was previously featured here too
cumming.ucalgary.ca
Researchers are using the International Microbiome Centre to discover how probiotics might help babies born preterm
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Thanks to @UCalgary for featuring our work's most important reason. Holly is one of our @bloomstudy participants and this work is only possible because of her and her family, who continue to graciously contribute to patient-oriented research. BIG thanks 🙏🙏🙏
#UCalgaryMed researcher, @ArrietaLab, has shown that probiotic supplements can help form a healthy microbiome in the gut of the tiniest infants who are born without a fully formed gut microbiome. Read more here: https://t.co/dSseo3Pvp9
@UofCr4kids @SnyderInstitute
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Spoke with @nytimes about #breastfeeding & the infant #microbiome re. our findings from the @CHILDSTUDY, policy implications and the many unknowns in this exciting field of research. Thanks @apoorva_nyc! https://t.co/AWL5yJwC5c cc @bykriscampbell
nytimes.com
Breast-fed milk may nourish a baby’s microbiome in ways that bottled breast milk can’t.
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