Percent Body Fat in Breast Fed Infants (PeaPod)

Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other; Industry; Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT00616083

56991

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to learn about normal body composition (% body fat) during the first six months of life in healthy breast-fed babies.

Enrollment: 190 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 2 weeks old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Term birth
• Infant must weigh at least 5.5# at birth
• Single birth
• Healthy mother/infant as determined by the investigator
• Intention to breast feed

Exclusion criteria

• Significant perinatal morbidity
• Having health, environmental, or economic constraints on growth
• Infants of a mother with diabetes or gestational diabetes

Trial design

190 participants in 1 patient group

1

Description:

Healthy breast fed infants