The 12th International Conference on Nutrition and Growth took place in Athens, Greece on 20-22 February 2025.
At the conference, three members of the N4 research group had been selected to give presentations.
Ania Chmielewska was an invited speaker on the topic ‘To supplement or not: The iron dilemma in breastfed infants’ in the session ‘Hot topics in infant nutrition’. Her talk focused on the controversial subject of iron supplementation for breastfed infants in their first six months, questioning whether breast milk alone sufficiently meets their developmental needs.
Later the same day, our PhD student Ludwig Svensson presented an abstract with findings from the Supplementing Iron and Development in Breastfed Infants (SIDBI Study). His talk was titled ‘Low-dose iron supplementation early in life reduces behavioral problems in healthy breastfed infants: results from a randomized placebo-controlled trial’ and was part of the oral presentations session Infancy.
Furthermore, our Post Doc Iratxe Urkia presented her e-poster “Prevalence and risk factors for anemia and iron deficiency in 18 months old toddlers within the NorthPop prospective birth cohort”.
In connection with the N&G conference, there was also an upstart meeting for the new FIT-PIV study, an international multicenter RCT, for which Prof Magnus Domellöf is on the steering group and coordinating PI for Sweden.
“It was a very successful meeting, where we presented exciting new results which generated quite a lot of interest in the research community”, said Prof Magnus Domellöf, who attended the conference together with Ania, Ludwig, Iratxe and a number of other colleagues.
