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Evaluation of maternal supplementation with vitamin E and its influence on breast milk

Not Applicable
Conditions
Acquired haemolytic anaemia, Dietary Supplements, nutritional deficiency, Obstetric Labor, Premature
J02.500.456
C18.654.521.500
C13.703.420.491
Registration Number
RBR-9gycqb
Lead Sponsor
niversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Recruitment completed
Sex
Female
Target Recruitment
Not specified
Inclusion Criteria

Healthy lactating preterm births; single conceptus without malformation; aged 18-40 years; no history of abortion; without the use of vitamin supplements during pregnancy

Exclusion Criteria

Women with term delivery, ie, greater than 37 weeks gestation; that are experiencing conditions such as diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and liver, heart disease, infectious syphilis, HIV positive and neoplasia; multiple conceptus; who used vitamin supplements during pregnancy containing vitamin E.

Study & Design

Study Type
Intervention
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Expected outcome: Increased alpha-tocopherol concentration in breast milk in the supplemented group, within 30 days. To increase the verified, we will use the high performance liquid chromatography method compared with a standard. For determining the expected outcome, were taken into account the effect size d = 0.3, alpha 0.05, test the power of 0.8 and a 95% confidence interval. Under these parameters, the minimum sample size required was 38 subjects for each group.;Outcome found: Increased alpha-tocopherol concentration in breast milk in the supplemented group, in the period up to 7 days. The method used to quantify the tocopherol was chromatographed high efficiency, based on comparison to a standard alpha-tocopherol. The study included 89 women distributed in the control group (n = 51) and supplemented group (n = 38).
Secondary Outcome Measures
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