NCT01658488

Pilot Study of the Effect of Iron Fortified Rice in Iron Deficient Anemic Women

Pilot Study of the Effect of Iron Fortified Rice on Iron Stores and Reticulocytes in Iron Deficient Anemic Women

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 17 (actual)
• Sponsor: Pennington Biomedical Research Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 50 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to see if rice enriched in iron will help women with iron-deficient anemia restore their blood counts more efficiently than the standard rice not enriched with iron.

Detailed description

The study will consist of 1 screening visit and 3 study visits. The two-week study will be scheduled to be between menses. You will then be assigned to eat regular rice dishes or rice dishes fortified with iron for the two-week period. The assignment to the rice group will be made randomly (like flipping a coin). Your chance of being in either rice group will be 50:50. You will be given 14 frozen rice meals in styrofoam containers to take home. You will be expected to eat two rice dishes per day for the next study week and to bring the empty containers to your next study visit.

Conditions

• Iron Deficiency Anemia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Non-fortified rice	Consumption of 2 servings of Non-fortified rice per day in women with iron deficiency anemia and measure serum iron and transferrin at baseline and end of study.
OTHER	Iron-fortified Rice	Consumption of 2 servings of Iron-fortified rice per day in women with iron deficiency anemia and measure serum iron and transferrin at baseline and end of study.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-07-01
• Primary completion: 2015-08-01
• Completion: 2015-10-01
• First posted: 2012-08-07
• Last updated: 2018-11-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States