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Trial to Alleviate Malnutrition With Fortified Spread Given as a Food Supplement to Underweight Infants

NCT00131222 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 176

Last updated 2014-05-20

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study tests the hypothesis that underweight 6-17-month old infants receiving fortified spread as a food supplement for 12 weeks grow better during the supplementation than infants who are provided with maize-soy flour supplement.

Conditions

  • Malnutrition

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Food supplement: fortified spread

PROCEDURE

Food supplement: maize and soy flour

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Academy of Finland

    collaborator OTHER

  • Foundation for Paediatric Research, Finland

    collaborator OTHER

  • Tampere University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Per Ashorn, MD, PhD · University of Tampere, Medical School

  • Kenneth M Maleta, MBBS, PhD · Kamuzu University of Health Sciences

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Months
Max Age
15 Months
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2005-02-28
Completion
2005-09-30

Countries

  • Malawi

Study Locations

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