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Title: Perspective: Human Milk Composition and Related Data for National Health and Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research
Authors: Ahuja, Jaspreet KC
Casavale, Kellie O
Li, Ying
Hopperton, Kathryn E
Chakrabarti, Subhadeep
Hines, Erin P
Bondy, Genevieve S
Keywords: human milk
intake volume
bioactives in human milk
breast milk
nutrients in human milk
, human milk composition data repository
Issue Date: 2022
Abstract: National health and nutrition monitoring is an important federal effort in the United States and Canada, and the basis for many of their nutrition and health policies. Understanding of child exposures through human milk (HM) remains out of reach due to lack of current and representative data on HM’s composition and intake volume. This article provides an overview of the current national health and nutrition monitoring activities for HM-fed children, HM composition (HMC) and volume data used for exposure assessment, categories of potential measures in HM, and associated variability factors. In this Perspective, we advocate for a framework for collection and reporting of HMC data for national health and nutrition monitoring and programmatic needs, including a shared vision for a publicly available Human Milk Composition Data Repository (HMCD-R) to include essential metadata associated with HMC. HMCD-R can provide a central, integrated platform for researchers and public health officials for compiling, evaluating, and sharing HMC data. The compiled compositional and metadata in HMCD-R would provide pertinent measures of central tendency and variability and allow use of modeling techniques to approximate compositional profiles for subgroups, providing more accurate exposure assessments for purposes of monitoring and surveillance. HMC and related metadata could facilitate understanding the complexity and variability of HM composition, provide crucial data for assessment of infant and maternal nutritional needs, and inform public health policies, food and nutrition programs, and clinical practice guideline
URI: http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/5219
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