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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 19 February 2015
Main ID:  NCT02229526
Date of registration: 03/03/2014
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Sjurdur Frodi Olsen
Public title: Fish Oil Trials in Pregnancy for the Prevention of Pregnancy Complications ('FOTIP') FOTIP
Scientific title: Randomised Clinical Trials of Fish Oil Supplementation in High Risk Pregnancies
Date of first enrolment: January 1990
Target sample size: 1619
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02229526
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator)  
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
Contacts
Name:     Sjurdur F Olsen, Professor
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Affiliation:  Center for Fetal Programming, Denmark
Name:     Niels J Secher, Professor
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Affiliation:  Rigshospitalet, Denmark
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- There were six subgroups with different inclusion criteria:

- The low dose (prophylactic) section enrolled women who after 16 weeks of gestation
had been identified with an uncomplicated pregnancy, who in an earlier pregnancy had
experienced preterm delivery (this was subgroup 1)

- Intrauterine growth retardation (subgroup 2) or pregnancy induced hypertension
(subgroup 3)

- Women who had been identified with twin pregnancies (subgroup 4)

- The high dose ('therapeutic') section enrolled women with threatening pre-eclampsia
(subgroup 5) or suspected intrauterine growth retardation in the current pregnancy
(subgroup 6).

Exclusion Criteria:

- Diabetes mellitus in or before pregnancy

- Diagnosed severe fetal malformation or hydrops in current pregnancy

- Suspicion in current pregnancy, or occurrence in an earlier pregnancy, of placental
abruption

- Drug or alcohol abuse

- Regular intake of fish oil or of non-steroidal antiinflammatory agents or other drugs
with an effect on thombocyte function or eicosanoid metabolism

- Allergy to fish products.



Age minimum: N/A
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: Female
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Intrauterine Growth Retardation
Pregnancy Induced Hypertension
Preterm Birth
Intervention(s)
Dietary Supplement: Low dose olive oil
Dietary Supplement: High dose fish oil
Dietary Supplement: High dose olive oil
Dietary Supplement: Low dose fish oil
Primary Outcome(s)
Intrauterine growth retardation [Time Frame: Participants will be followed for the duration of pregnancy and the first few days after delivery, on average 20-26 weeks from recruitment and randomization.]
Preterm delivery [Time Frame: Participants will be followed for the duration of pregnancy and the first few days after delivery, on average 20-26 weeks from recruitment and randomization.]
Pregnancy Induced Hypertension [Time Frame: Participants will be followed for the duration of pregnancy and the first few days after delivery, on average 20-26 weeks from recruitment and randomization.]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
DT2006-41-6257
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Rigshospitalet, Denmark
Ethics review
Results
Results available:
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