Contributors
Barbara Troesch: Role: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Johann Demmelmair: Role: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Writing – review & editing
Martina Gimpfl: Role: InvestigationRole: Writing – review & editing
Christina Hecht: Role: Project administrationRole: Writing – review & editing
Goran Lakovic: Role: InvestigationRole: Writing – review & editing
Robert Roehle: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: Writing – review & editing
Ljilja Sipka: Role: InvestigationRole: Writing – review & editing
Branka Trisic: Role: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: Writing – review
& editing
Milica Vusurovic: Role: InvestigationRole: Writing – review & editing
Rotraut Schoop: Role: MethodologyRole: Writing – review & editing
Sznezana Zdjelar: Role: InvestigationRole: Writing – review & editing
Berthold Koletzko:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5345-7165
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Formal analysisRole: Funding acquisitionRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – original draftRole:
Writing – review & editing
Seth Adu-Afarwuah: Role: Editor
Journal
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
19
August
2019
Publication date Collection: 2019
Volume: 14
Issue: 8
Electronic Location Identifier: e0216790
Affiliations
[1
]
DSM Nutritional Products Ltd., Kaiseraugst, Switzerland
[2
]
LMU -Ludwig-Maximilians Universität Munich, Dr von Hauner Children’s Hospital, Munich,
Germany
[3
]
HiPP GmbH & Co. Vertrieb KG, Pfaffenhofen, Germany
[4
]
Clinical Hospital Center "Dr Dragiša Mišović-Dedinje", Belgrade, Serbia
[5
]
Charité- Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin,
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
[6
]
Berlin Institute of Health, KKS Charité, Berlin, Germany
[7
]
HiPP Study Center, Belgrade, Serbia
University of Ghana, GHANA
Author notes
Competing Interests: BT and RS are employees of DSM Nutritional Products Ltd., MG, CH, and BT are employees
of Hipp GmbH & Co. BT and RS are employed by DSM Nutritional Products Ltd., MG and
CH are employed by HiPP GmbH & Co and BRT is employed by the HiPP Study center. We
declare our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials and are open
to sharing data for research purposes upon request, under conditions respecting the
EU General Data Protection Regulation and the protection of personal rights of study
subjects.
¶ Membership of the MEFOLIN Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-18-29025
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0216790
PMC ID: 6699731
PubMed ID: 31425504
SO-VID: a7327484-b4f8-404e-8658-35296e34349e
Copyright © © 2019 Troesch et al
License:
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided
the original author and source are credited.
History
Date
received
: 22
October
2018
Date
accepted
: 19
March
2019
Page count
Figures: 4,
Tables: 4,
Pages: 18
Funding
Funded by: DSM
Award Recipient
:
Robert Roehle
Funded by: DSM
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5345-7165
Berthold Koletzko
Funded by: DSM
Award Recipient
:
Goran Lakovic
Funded by: DSM
Award Recipient
:
Ljilja Sipka
Funded by: DSM
Award Recipient
:
Milica Vusurovic
Funded by: DSM
Award Recipient
:
Sznezana Zdjedlar
Funded by: Hipp GmbH
Award ID: provision of study intervention
DSM provided financial support for the research reported here, and the study was also
financially supported in part by HiPP & Co. Vertrieb KG. The study formulae were provided
free of charge by HiPP GmbH & Co. Vertrieb KG. The funders of the study, DSM and Hipp,
provided support in the form of salaries for authors BT, RS, MG, CH and BT, but did
not have any additional role in the study data collection and analysis or decision
to publish. The specific roles of these authors are articulated in the ‘author contributions’
section.
Categories
Subject:
Research Article
Subject:
Physical Sciences
Subject:
Chemistry
Subject:
Chemical Compounds
Subject:
Organic Compounds
Subject:
Vitamins
Subject:
B Vitamins
Subject:
Folic Acid
Subject:
Physical Sciences
Subject:
Chemistry
Subject:
Organic Chemistry
Subject:
Organic Compounds
Subject:
Vitamins
Subject:
B Vitamins
Subject:
Folic Acid
Subject:
People and Places
Subject:
Population Groupings
Subject:
Age Groups
Subject:
Children
Subject:
Infants
Subject:
People and Places
Subject:
Population Groupings
Subject:
Families
Subject:
Children
Subject:
Infants
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Physiology
Subject:
Physiological Parameters
Subject:
Body Weight
Subject:
Weight Gain
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Physiology
Subject:
Physiological Parameters
Subject:
Body Weight
Subject:
Weight Gain
Subject:
Research and Analysis Methods
Subject:
Research Design
Subject:
Clinical Research Design
Subject:
Adverse Events
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Nutrition
Subject:
Diet
Subject:
Beverages
Subject:
Milk
Subject:
Breast Milk
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Nutrition
Subject:
Diet
Subject:
Beverages
Subject:
Milk
Subject:
Breast Milk
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Anatomy
Subject:
Body Fluids
Subject:
Milk
Subject:
Breast Milk
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Anatomy
Subject:
Body Fluids
Subject:
Milk
Subject:
Breast Milk
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Physiology
Subject:
Body Fluids
Subject:
Milk
Subject:
Breast Milk
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Physiology
Subject:
Body Fluids
Subject:
Milk
Subject:
Breast Milk
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Physiology
Subject:
Physiological Parameters
Subject:
Body Weight
Subject:
Birth Weight
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Physiology
Subject:
Physiological Parameters
Subject:
Body Weight
Subject:
Birth Weight
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Physiology
Subject:
Physiological Parameters
Subject:
Body Weight
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Physiology
Subject:
Physiological Parameters
Subject:
Body Weight
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Anatomy
Subject:
Body Fluids
Subject:
Blood
Subject:
Blood Plasma
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Anatomy
Subject:
Body Fluids
Subject:
Blood
Subject:
Blood Plasma
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Physiology
Subject:
Body Fluids
Subject:
Blood
Subject:
Blood Plasma
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Physiology
Subject:
Body Fluids
Subject:
Blood
Subject:
Blood Plasma
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