A previous study in healthy infants supplemented with long chain polyunsaturated fatty acid (LCPUFA) for 2 months showed a benefit on neurological development at 3 months of age.
The follow-up study was published in the May issue of Acta Pediatrics. It conducted an investigation to examine benefits of early supplementation with LCPUFA after 18 months of age in 475 children from the original study.
The researchers found no long-term benefits from early supplementation. Positive effects that had been seen at 3 months of age were no longer evident between the treatment group and placebo. There were no differences between he groups.
The authors concluded that supplementation with LCPUFA may have had an initial benefit, but that benefit on neurological development disappeared by 18 months of age. The research does not support the use of long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids for improving neurological development in healthy infants.
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