Does Breastfeeding Lower Blood Pressure in Postpartum Hypertensive Patients

NCT ID: NCT02574494

Last Updated: 2019-02-01

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

40 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2015-10-31

Study Completion Date

2017-12-31

Brief Summary

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The primary aim is to establish whether breastfeeding is associated with lowering blood pressure in hypertensive women.

Detailed Description

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Patients included in this study will have chosen to breastfeed.

1. The investigators will identify patients that are planning to breastfeed from their intake questionnaire that all patients receive upon admission to labor and delivery. They will also identify breastfeeding patients while performing our postpartum rounding.
2. The investigators will perform a chart review to determine their co-morbidities and current medications. Specifically, the patient information recorded will be age, parity, gestational age, delivery route, vital signs, medications, race, whether they are breastfeeding. Of note, all of the individuals listed to participate in this study have routine access to the patient's charts since they will be working with the patients regardless of their participation in the study.
3. Only hypertensive women will be included. Hypertension is defined as persistent Systolic blood pressure \> 140 and or persistent diastolic blood pressure \> 90.
4. Once it has been determined that they have met the inclusion criteria for the study the investigators will ask the patient's attending physician if we can approach the patient and explain the study and obtain consent.
5. Once consent is obtained, the investigators will inform the nurse. The patient will have her blood pressure taken prior to breastfeeding, during breastfeeding, and 1-2 hours after breastfeeding. This will occur 3 times in the postpartum period.

Conditions

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Breastfeeding Hypertension

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility Criteria

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Exclusion Criteria

* The study will exclude patient's on dopamine agonist medications or HIV positive.
Eligible Sex

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Sarah Kilpatrick

Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Los Angeles, California, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Other Identifiers

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Pro00040747

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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