Status:
COMPLETED
Vitamin B12 Supplementation During Pregnancy
Lead Sponsor:
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
Conditions:
Nutritional Anemia in Mothers.
Nutritional Anemia in Infants.
Eligibility:
All Genders
22-35 years
Phase:
PHASE2
PHASE3
Brief Summary
Nutritional anemia is a major public health problem among children and women in developing countries. Despite ongoing national program of supplementing pregnant women with iron-folate, prevalence of a...
Detailed Description
Study Area: A maternity clinic in Mirpur with substantial numbers of pregnant women enrolling each month (about 300-400/month) will be selected for recruitment of local pregnant women. The community i...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Hb level in the range of 7.0-11 g/dL
- Age: 22-35 years
- Mothers at the beginning of second trimester (i.e. at 11-14 weeks of gestation)
- Willing to stay in Dhaka during pregnancy and willing to get admitted in the clinic for delivery
- Self-reported Last Menstrual Period (LMP) and urine pregnancy test will be used to determine the gestational age.
Exclusion
- Women with severe anemia; hemoglobin concentration \<7.0 g/dL
- History or presence of systemic disease
- H/O of previous complicated pregnancies or of pre-term delivery, abortion
- Receipt of influenza vaccine
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
February 1 2010
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
December 1 2013
Estimated Enrollment :
120 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01795131
Start Date
February 1 2010
End Date
December 1 2013
Last Update
April 3 2014
Active Locations (1)
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Maternal and Child Health Training Institute
Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1205