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Alan Lucas
Researcher at University College London
Publications - 269
Citations - 29549
Alan Lucas is an academic researcher from University College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Breast milk & Breast feeding. The author has an hindex of 87, co-authored 268 publications receiving 28167 citations. Previous affiliations of Alan Lucas include Medical Research Council & UCL Institute of Child Health.
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Breast milk and neonatal necrotising enterocolitis
Alan Lucas,Tim J Cole +1 more
TL;DR: With the fall in the use of breast milk in British neonatal units, exclusive formula feeding could account for an estimated 500 extra cases of necrotising enterocolitis each year, and about 100 infants would die.
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Breast milk and subsequent intelligence quotient in children born preterm
TL;DR: Children who had consumed mother's milk in the early weeks of life had a significantly higher IQ at 71/2-8 years than did those who received no maternal milk and this advantage remained even after adjustment for differences between groups in mother's education and social class.
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An Exclusively Human Milk-Based Diet Is Associated with a Lower Rate of Necrotizing Enterocolitis than a Diet of Human Milk and Bovine Milk-Based Products
Sandra E. Sullivan,Richard J. Schanler,Jae H. Kim,Aloka L. Patel,Rudolf Trawöger,Ursula Kiechl-Kohlendorfer,Gary M. Chan,Cynthia L. Blanco,Steven A. Abrams,C. Michael Cotten,Nirupama Laroia,Richard A. Ehrenkranz,Golde Dudell,Elizabeth Cristofalo,Paula P. Meier,Martin Lee,David J. Rechtman,Alan Lucas +17 more
TL;DR: For extremely premature infants, an exclusively human milk-based diet is associated with significantly lower rates of NEC and surgical NEC when compared with a mother's milk- based diet that also includes bovine Milk-based products.
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Early origins of cardiovascular disease: is there a unifying hypothesis?
Atul Singhal,Alan Lucas +1 more
TL;DR: It is shown that early postnatal nutrition permanently affects the major components of the metabolic syndrome—hypertension, dyslipidaemia, obesity, and insulin resistance—that affect propensity to CVD.
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Fetal origins of adult disease—the hypothesis revisited
TL;DR: The hypothesis that adult disease has fetal origins is plausible, but much supportive evidence is flawed by incomplete and incorrect statistical interpretation.