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Record W4411573202 · doi:10.1002/jpen.2782

Development of home‐based methods to defat human milk for infants with chylothorax: An experimental study

2025· article· en· W4411573202 on OpenAlexaff
Kaitlin Berris, Kendall Plant, Frances M. Jones, Diego Márquez, Rajavel Elango

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicLymphatic Disorders and Treatments
Canadian institutionsB.C. Women's Hospital & Health CentreBC Children's HospitalUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCentrifugationMedicineChylothoraxSignificant differenceLactoseFood scienceSurgeryChemistryInternal medicineChromatography

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: Chylothorax is a postoperative complication for infants with congenital heart defects; with high nutrition risk. Defatted human milk is recommended; however, refrigerated centrifugation to process milk poses accessibility barriers for many hospitals and families at home. Creation of a simplified home-based defatted milk protocol allows infants with chylothorax to be provided the immunological benefits of human milk postoperatively. METHODS: Milk from 20 mothers was tested to compare refrigerated centrifugation as the standard defatting technique against gravity-based methods: syringe tip-down and gravy separator. Two timeframes, 24 h and 48 h, were tested to determine if additional time had a significant impact on fat reduction. The MIRIS human milk analyzer provided results for fat, true protein, carbohydrate, and energy content. One-way analysis of variance was used to determine a significant difference on fat content among methods. RESULTS: All methods had a significant reduction in fat content, with centrifugation having the largest mean decline from 3.4 to 0.5 g/100 ml (P < 0.0001). The second most effective method to defat milk was 48-h gravy separator with a mean decline to 0.7 g/100 ml (P < 0.0001). Postpartum age of milk impacted the degree of fat removal in all methods. True protein content remained the same as baseline in all methods. CONCLUSION: A simplified home-based gravity separation method over 48 h reduced human milk fat by 80%. This is the first protocol to defat human milk without use of the more resource-intensive centrifugation method, that shows significant fat reduction with easy-to-use and accessible equipment for management of infants with chylothorax.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.002
Threshold uncertainty score0.006

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.040
GPT teacher head0.415
Teacher spread0.375 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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