Serum Folic Acid Levels in Preterm Infants

Very Low Birth Weight Baby Clinical Trial

— FALIPI  

Official title:

Zekai Tahir Burak Maternity and Teaching Hospital

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01360528
• Other study ID #: ztb5326315185
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: May 23, 2011
• Last updated: February 15, 2012
• Start date: February 2011
• Est. completion date: October 2011

Study information

• Verified date: February 2011
• Source: Zekai Tahir Burak Women's Health Research and Education Hospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Turkey: Ministry of Health
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Therefore preterm infants must need folic acid replacement than term babies.

Description:

All babies need to different vitamin supplementation. Especially preterm infants need some vitamin supplements. Folic acid is very important structure of part of cell growing.ın theorically; preterm infants have very rapid cell reproduction capacity than term infants. Therefore preterm infants must need folic acid replacement than term babies. The investigators want to determine preterm infants folic acid levels due to gestational age whether needs folic acid replacement.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 100
• Est. completion date: October 2011
• Est. primary completion date: May 2011
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 24 Weeks to 34 Weeks

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

-All preterm infants

Exclusion Criteria:

-Major congenital anomaly

Study Design

Observational Model: Case Control, Time Perspective: Prospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Birth Weight
• Very Low Birth Weight Baby

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Turkey	Zekai Tahir Burak Maternity Teaching Hospital, Neonatology Unit	Ankara

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Mehmet Yekta

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Turkey,