Early and intensive nutritional strategy combining parenteral and enteral feeding promotes neurodevelopment and growth at 18Â months of corrected age and 3Â years of age in extremely low birth weight infants

Parenteral and enteral AN after birth improved the long-term cognitive neurodevelopment in ELBW AGA infants, especially in those born ≥ 26 weeks of gestational age, however results need to be confirmed in a larger, multi-site randomized trial.