Lactoferrin and Improved Height-for-Age Z-Score

• Associations of Lactoferrin-Fortified Formula with Infant Growth and Gut Microbiota: A Real-World Observational Study.

  • 2025-12-12
  • Observational
  • Nutrients 17(24)
  • • Xiaojin Shi
    • Biao Liu
    • Wenhui Ye
    • Xuanjing Qi
    • Menglu Xi
    • Shuqi Liu
    • Qihan Zhu
    • Lutong Zheng
    • Ai Zhao

  • PubMed: 41470843
  • DOI: 10.3390/nu17243896

  2 Insights on

  • Improved Height-for-Age Z-Score

  • Moderate evidence
  • Rigorous Journal
  • Infants

  The LF group exhibited significantly higher length-for-age Z-scores (LAZ) compared with both the BF and CF groups (p < 0.001), indicating superior linear growth.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large

  Significant

  Yes