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Last refreshed on: 16 December 2017
Main ID:  NCT03013374
Date of registration: 30/12/2016
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico
Public title: Protein Balance and Body Composition in Preterm Infants
Scientific title: Protein Balance and Body Composition in Preterm Infants According to Feeding Regimen
Date of first enrolment: January 2015
Target sample size: 30
Recruitment status: Recruiting
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT03013374
Study type:  Observational
Study design:   
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
Italy
Contacts
Name:     Laura Morlacchi, MD
Address: 
Telephone: +39 0255032483
Email: laura.morlacchi@mangiagalli.it
Affiliation: 
Name:     Laura Morlacchi, MD
Address: 
Telephone: +39 0255032483
Email: laura.morlacchi@mangiagalli.it
Affiliation: 
Name:     Laura Morlacchi, MD
Address: 
Telephone:
Email:
Affiliation:  Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- gestational age =32 weeks

- birth weight < 1500 grams

- birth weight =10th percentile according to Fenton's growth chart

- stable clinical conditions at discharge

- feeding by mouth with either exclusively human milk or formula at discharge

Exclusion Criteria:

- congenital or chromosomal abnormalities

- conditions that could interfere with growth such as chronic lung disease, neurological
disorders, metabolic, cardiac disease and abdominal surgery, renal failure and/or
sepsis (defined as a positive blood culture).



Age minimum: 23 Weeks
Age maximum: 32 Weeks
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Human Milk
PreTerm Birth
Intervention(s)
Primary Outcome(s)
Protein balance [Time Frame: at hospital discharge (that is 35-36 post conceptional weeks)]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Fat free mass content [Time Frame: Term corrected age (that is 40 post conceptional weeks)]
Secondary ID(s)
Protein balance and FFM
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
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