Status:
COMPLETED
Making Maternal Post-partum Vitamin A Supplementation Effective: The Role of Timing and Inflammation
Lead Sponsor:
Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement
Collaborating Sponsors:
Thrasher Research Fund
University of Copenhagen
Conditions:
Healthy Women Giving Birth to Singleton Infants
Eligibility:
FEMALE
18-50 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
Background: Vitamin A is of utmost importance for health and survival of children. A recent series in The Lancet on maternal and child health put vitamin A deficiency at the top of most important mic...
Detailed Description
Background. Undernutrition causes over 3.5 million child deaths a year, with vitamin A deficiency alone responsible for almost 0.6 million child deaths per year1. Vitamin A supplementation of children...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Healthy women giving birth to a singleton infant.
Exclusion
- Women giving birth to infants weighing \< 1500 gram (very low birth weight infant) will be excluded.
- Also excluded will be twin pregnancy, because of different growth patterns of the infants and congenital abnormalities interfering with normal growth.
- Furthermore, women indicating that they are planning not to breast feed their baby will be excluded, as well as women who experience delivery complications which result in prolonged (\> 3 days) hospital stay.
- Complications such as eclampsia or excessive blood loss will be registered, but will not be a reason for exclusion per se.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
June 1 2010
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
October 1 2012
Estimated Enrollment :
400 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00952640
Start Date
June 1 2010
End Date
October 1 2012
Last Update
October 11 2012
Active Locations (1)
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1
National Institute of Nutrition
Hanoi, Vietnam