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Background:
‘Intermittent fasting’ is a time-restricted feeding strategy with proven health benefits in several patient populations and healthy subjects, which are based on multiple metabolic and endocrine changes. In the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) artificial feeding is usually administered 24 hours a day, although solid evidence supporting this practice is lacking. This discards the potential benefit of fasting in this population. We hypothesize that intermittent… Show more
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