Pre/Term Milk Profiling

Nestlé

Status: Completed

Conditions: Preterm Milk; Term Milk

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT02052245

11.39.NRC

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims for an in-depth characterization of human milk of mothers who delivered prematurely to decipher differences with milk of mothers who delivered at the expected term, with a particular focus on milk proteins

Enrollment: 61 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Having obtained informed consent
• Group 1 (term delivery): Gestational age between 37 0/7 and not above 41 6/7 weeks
• Group 2 (preterm delivery): Gestational age between 28 0/7 and 32 6/7 weeks
• Age: Mother ≥ 18 years old
• Partial or total breast feeding
• Having a freezer compartment at home (approx. -18°C)
• Good understanding of the French language

Exclusion criteria

• Suffering from diabetes (type I or II) before pregnancy
• Alcohol consumption: more than 1 standard drink / day
• Drug addicted
• Subject who cannot be expected to comply with the study procedures.
• Currently participating in an interventional therapeutic clinical trial

Trial design

61 participants in 2 patient groups

Subject delivering preterm baby

Subject delivering term baby