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Timing of Iron Supplementation in Very Low Birth Weight Infants

NCT00683527 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 46

Last updated 2008-05-23

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

To examine if early iron supplementation (starting oral iron at 14 days of life) would improve the nutritional iron status(measured by serum ferritin) of very low birth weight infants at postnatal age of 60 days, when compared to the standard regime of starting iron at 2 months of life.

Conditions

  • Nutritional Status

Interventions

DRUG

Elemental iron

Iron in the dose of 3-4 mg/kg/day (of elemental iron) PO once daily mixed with expressed breast milk from 14 days of life till the end of study period

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Indian Council of Medical Research

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • All India Institute of Medical Sciences

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • M Jeeva Sankar, MD DM · All India Institute of Medical Sciences

  • Vinod K Paul, MD PhD · All India Institute of Medical Sciences

  • Ramesh Agarwal, MD DM · All India Institute of Medical Sciences

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
14 Days
Max Age
60 Days
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-05-31
Primary Completion
2006-11-30
Completion
2007-01-31

Countries

  • India

Study Locations

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