NCT01360528

Serum Folic Acid Levels in Preterm Infants

Zekai Tahir Burak Maternity and Teaching Hospital

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 100 (actual)
• Sponsor: Mehmet Yekta · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 24 Weeks – 34 Weeks
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

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

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Very Low Birth Weight Baby

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-02-01
• Primary completion: 2011-05-01
• Completion: 2011-10-01
• First posted: 2011-05-25
• Last updated: 2012-02-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)