Maternal and Infant Cord Blood Monosaccharide Content

Pregnancy Clinical Trial

Official title:

Comparison of Monosaccharide Content of Maternal and Umbilical Venous Cord Blood in Term and Preterm Pregnancies

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00783770
• Other study ID #: 31247
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: October 31, 2008
• Last updated: May 16, 2011
• Start date: July 2005

Study information

• Verified date: May 2011
• Source: Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Mother's breast milk provides many benefits to babies with regard to development and improved health. We believe the simple sugars which make up these complex sugars in breast milk and are also found in the brain may be critical to normal brain development in term and preterm infants.

Babies are exposed to these sugars by placental transport during pregnancy and through mother's breast milk after they are born. For the preterm infant, we do not know if breast milk gives enough of these sugars compared to what the baby gets during pregnancy.

A maternal blood sample and blood samples from the baby's umbilical cord will provide us with background information for developing a supplement of special sugars that can be added to infant formulas to provide the amount that the baby usually gets during pregnancy and from breast milk.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 48
• Est. primary completion date: March 2007
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 18 Years to 35 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Healthy mothers with ages ranging from 18 to 35 yrs

• Delivered infants appropriate weight for gestational age (between 10% and 90%)

Exclusion Criteria:

• Maternal history of smoking, alcohol or drug use

Study Design

Observational Model: Cohort, Time Perspective: Cross-Sectional

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Pregnancy

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute	United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), University of Arkansas