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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 May 23.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Obes (Lond). 2016 Nov 23;41(4):510–517. doi: 10.1038/ijo.2016.211

Figure 4. Infant body composition at 4-months of age is predicted by the AA/DHA+EPA ratio in human milk.

Figure 4

(A) Infant fat mass, fat-free mass, and total mass at 4-months of age were stratified by upper (n = 14) and lower tertile (n = 11) of established HM AA/DHA+EPA ratios. Infant fat mass, but not fat-free mass, was significantly greater in the upper AA/DHA+EPA ratio tertile relative to the lower (P = 0.019). (B) No difference in infant fat mass was observed when grouped according to maternal prepregnancy BMI. (C) The postnatal change in infant adipose deposition (Δ-fat mass or Δ % body Fat) between 2-weeks and 4-months of age were significantly associated with the established HM A/DHA+EPA ratio (P = 0.038 and P = 0.010). The AA/DHA+EPA ratio in established HM predicted 287g or 4.7 %BF increases (β estimate) in infant adiposity for each 1-unit increase in ratio (n = 40).