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Serum Lipids in Premature Infants on Vegetable Fat Diet
Author(s) -
KRASILNIKOFF P. A.,
VESTERDAL J.
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1966.tb15242.x
Subject(s) - food science , cow milk , cholesterol , polyunsaturated fatty acid , milk fat , blood lipids , composition (language) , medicine , fatty acid , biochemistry , endocrinology , chemistry , linguistics , philosophy , linseed oil
Summary Serum lipids were studied in premature infants on different diets: human milk, an ordinary 50% cow's milk formula and a cow's milk preparation (Olac) where the butter fat had been replaced with vegetable fat, so that the content of unsaturated fatty acids was practically similar to that of human milk. The total lipids and phospholipids showed no significant differences on these diets. Serum cholesterol was significantly lower on feeding with Olac than on human milk, but no differences with regard to the cholesterol were seen between infants on human milk and infants on 50 % cow's milk formula. These findings are in accordance with previous investigations. As the amount of unsaturated fatty acids is practically identical in human milk and in Olac, we cannot explain why serum cholesterol is lower when the latter is given. Nor can it be explained why serum cholesterol is similar on human milk and on 50% cow's milk formula, the content of unsaturated fatty acids in fact being more than three times as high in the former as in the latter. Apparently the total amount of polyunsaturated fatty acids is not the factor responsible for these results. Our figures do not permit the conclusion that any single fraction of the lipids is the factor in question. This problem needs further investigation.