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Nutrition Protocol and Premature Infants' Growth

NCT03217045 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 158

Last updated 2023-02-15

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Nutrition is a major issue for premature infants. Inappropriate nutritional intake during the first weeks of life is responsible for postnatal growth restriction and adverse long-term outcomes.

This study aimed at evaluating the impact of the introduction of an updated, standardized, nutrition protocol on very premature infants' growth and morbidity, and the care givers' compliance to the new protocol.

Conditions

  • Premature Infants
  • Nutrition Deficiency Due to Insufficient Food
  • Growth Retardation

Interventions

OTHER

nutrition protocol introduction

Growth comparison of 2 cohorts of infants evaluated in a before-after design

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Central Hospital, Nancy, France

    lead OTHER

Eligibility

Min Age
1 Day
Max Age
77 Days
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-05-01
Primary Completion
2014-10-31
Completion
2017-04-01

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