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Prevention of Iron Deficiency in Breastfed Infants

NCT01444261 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE4 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 219

Last updated 2017-03-31

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

With early screening and appropriate iron supplementation, iron deficiency in the first year of life can be prevented in breastfed infants.

Conditions

Interventions

DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Fer-in-Sol

Fer-in-Sol drops providing 7.5 mg iron in 0.3 ml per day given from 84 to 168 d of age and iron-fortified cereal

OTHER

control

No dietary supplements

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Iowa

    collaborator OTHER

  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

    lead NIH

Principal Investigators

  • Ekhard Ziegler, MD · University of Iowa

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
4 Weeks
Max Age
9 Months
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-12-31
Primary Completion
2014-04-30
Completion
2014-04-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Entities

Diseases

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