Serum Folic Acid Levels in Preterm Infants (FALIPI)

Mehmet Yekta

Status: Completed

Conditions: Very Low Birth Weight Baby

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01360528

ztb5326315185

Details and patient eligibility

About

Therefore preterm infants must need folic acid replacement than term babies.

Full description

All babies need to different vitamin supplementation. Especially preterm infants need some vitamin supplements. Folic acid is very important structure of part of cell growing.ın theorically; preterm infants have very rapid cell reproduction capacity than term infants. Therefore preterm infants must need folic acid replacement than term babies. The investigators want to determine preterm infants folic acid levels due to gestational age whether needs folic acid replacement.

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 24 to 34 weeks old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

-All preterm infants

Exclusion criteria

-Major congenital anomaly

Trial design

100 participants in 3 patient groups

Extremely low birth weight

Description:

Extremely low birth weight under 1000 gram

Very low birth weight

Description:

Between 1000-1500 gram babies

Low birth weight

Description:

Between 1500-2500 gram