TY - JOUR T1 - Human milk is perhaps the single most under-rated strategy to prevent bronchopulmonary dysplasia JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition JO - Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2018-314949 SP - fetalneonatal-2018-314949 AU - Sergio Verd AU - Gemma Ginovart Y1 - 2018/05/05 UR - http://fn.bmj.com/content/early/2018/05/05/archdischild-2018-314949.abstract N2 - We commend Poets and Lorenz1 for their thorough review on strategies likely to reduce bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). They present an overview of the effectiveness and safety of interventions backed by randomised controlled trials (RCT) and aimed at preventing BPD. Their study concludes with nine recommendations for effective BPD prevention. The authors do not include breast feeding among the recommended interventions to prevent BPD. In addition to the research on breast feeding that is discussed by Poets and Lorenz, there are other observational studies that have addressed this topic. First, Dicky et al … ER -