Multi-dose Vitamin D Supplementation in Preterm Infants

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2016-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Preterm newborns are born with lower vitamin D stores. Although vitamin D supplementation is recommended there is no consensus regarding the adequate dose of supplementation for preterm infants.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Zekai Tahir Burak Women's Health Research and Education Hospital

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Preterm infants with gestational age 24 to 32 weeks who achieved at least 75% of total nutrition by enteral feedings in postnatal 2 weeks

Exclusion Criteria:

• perinatal asphyxia,

• major congenital or chromosomal anomalies,

• those with no expectation of survival in first 2 weeks

• those that total parenteral nutrition was not ceased by the first 2 weeks