{"id":149093,"date":"2022-10-29T14:24:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T19:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/omega-3-fatty-acid-could-boost-iq-for-preterm-babies"},"modified":"2022-10-29T14:24:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T19:24:28","slug":"omega-3-fatty-acid-could-boost-iq-for-preterm-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/omega-3-fatty-acid-could-boost-iq-for-preterm-babies","title":{"rendered":"Omega-3 fatty acid could boost IQ for preterm babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/omega-3-fatty-acid-could-boost-iq-for-preterm-babies2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research from SAHMRI has found a link between the omega-3 fatty acid known as docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and increased IQ among children born prematurely.<\/p>\n<p>Preterm children are more likely to have lower IQ scores and cognitive impairments compared with term-born children.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Jacqueline Gould, who led the study now published in the <i>New England Journal of Medicine<\/i>, says infants born at the earliest gestations are deprived of the natural supply of DHA that normally builds up in the brain during the last trimester of pregnancy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research from SAHMRI has found a link between the omega-3 fatty acid known as docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and increased IQ among children born prematurely. Preterm children are more likely to have lower IQ scores and cognitive impairments compared with term-born children. Dr. Jacqueline Gould, who led the study now published in the New England [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}