Maternal and Infant Health and Breast Milk Study in South China

NCT ID: NCT04655820

Last Updated: 2025-03-06

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

400 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2018-11-20

Study Completion Date

2022-12-30

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the nutrients in breast milk of Chinese mothers and its related factors, as well as exploring the early development of infants.

Detailed Description

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Breast milk contains a variety of nutrients that are beneficial to the early development of infants, such as lipids, Vitamins and so on. At present, the level of these nutrients in milk and infant formula are lower and which are present in a different form from that in breast milk. Therefore, this study was designed to investigate the level of nutrients in breast milk of Chinese mothers and learn about its related factors, as well as exploring the relationships between these nutrients and the early development of infants.

Conditions

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Healthy

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* age 20-45 years
* natural delivery, singleton pregnancy
* healthy term infants(at 37-42 weeks of pregnancy)
* don't smoke and drink
* self-evaluation as physical health
* breastfeeding at least until three months of age
* Apgar score \> 8
* sign informed consent

Exclusion Criteria

* suffering from mastitis
* gestational diabetes, hypertension and other metabolic diseases
* AIDS, tuberculosis and other acute or chronic infectious diseases
* severe heart and kidney diseases
* mental system diseases
* cancer and other malignant consumptive disease
* take drugs that affect nutrient metabolism
* infants with congenital and genetic diseases
* with lactation contraindications
* don't agree to sign informed consent
Minimum Eligible Age

20 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

45 Years

Eligible Sex

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Sun Yat-sen University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Huilian Zhu

Professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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SunYat-sen University

Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Site Status

Countries

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China

Other Identifiers

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HM-2020

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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