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Studies involving donor milk were not included.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>DATA EXTRACTION:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Two independent reviewers conducted the searches and extracted data. Meta-analysis used odds ratios (ORs), and subgroup analyses were performed.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>RESULTS:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Five studies with 2208 preterm infants were included. Searches including various proportions of human milk versus formula, any-stage ROP, and severe ROP were defined to pool data for analyses. For any-stage ROP, the ORs (95% confidence intervals [CIs]) were as follows: exclusive human milk versus any formula, 0.29 (0.12 to 0.72); mainly human milk versus mainly formula, 0.51 (0.26 to 1.03); any human milk versus exclusive formula, 0.54 (0.15 to 1.96); and exclusive human milk versus exclusive formula, 0.25 (0.13 to 0.49). For severe ROP, they were 0.11 (0.04 to 0.30), 0.16 (0.06 to 0.43), 0.42 (0.08 to 2.18), and 0.10 (0.04 to 0.29), respectively.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>LIMITATIONS:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Prospective randomized studies being impossible because of ethical issues, we chose observational studies for analysis. A few studies involving subgroup analyses presented high heterogeneity.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>CONCLUSIONS:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Based on current limited evidence, in very preterm newborns, human milk feeding potentially plays a protective role in preventing any-stage ROP and severe ROP.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1542\/peds.2015-2372","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,11,16]],"date-time":"2015-11-16T20:53:04Z","timestamp":1447707184000},"page":"e1576-e1586","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":97,"title":["Human Milk Feeding as a Protective Factor for Retinopathy of Prematurity: A Meta-analysis"],"prefix":"10.1542","volume":"136","author":[{"given":"Jianguo","family":"Zhou","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Children\u2019s Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Vivek V.","family":"Shukla","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada; and"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Denny","family":"John","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"People\u2019s Open Access Education Initiative, Manchester, United Kingdom"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Chao","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Children\u2019s Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"417","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,12,1]]},"reference":[{"issue":"1","key":"2021120906140605700_B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"19","DOI":"10.2471\/BLT.14.139790","article-title":"Neonatal cause-of-death estimates for the early and late neonatal periods for 194 countries: 2000-2013.","volume":"93","author":"Oza","year":"2015","journal-title":"Bull World Health Organ"},{"key":"2021120906140605700_B2","unstructured":"World Health Organization. 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