Early Pregnancy Antioxidant Supplementation in the Prevention of Preeclampsia

University of Mississippi

Status: Completed

Conditions: Preeclampsia; Pregnancy Loss

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00583635

IRB File # 2003-0119

Details and patient eligibility

About

Use of Juice Plus+ food supplements, when initiated in the first trimester and used continuously thereafter, will result in a lower incidence of preeclampsia and pregnancy complications. This is a prospective randomized and blinded placebo controlled study sponsored by NSA, LLC of Memphis, TN.

Full description

Not desired

Enrollment: 684 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 44 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Pregnant Patients seen in first trimester with low or high risk pregnancy

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnant patients first seen after the first trimester
• Unlikely to continue care in our system
• Unwilling to comply with rigor of taking food supplements throughout gestation

Trial design

684 participants in 4 patient groups

1

Description:

Low Risk Pregnancy, Placebo

2

Description:

Low Risk Pregnancy, Active Food Supplement

3

Description:

High Risk Pregnancy, Placebo

4

Description:

High Risk Pregnancy, Active Food Supplement