Safety and Effectiveness of Taking Choline Supplements During Pregnancy for Improving Infant Brain Development

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2017-03-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

This study will evaluate the safety and effectiveness of taking choline supplements during pregnancy, and whether choline supplementation has an effect on infant development.

• Phase: Phase 1
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Colorado, Denver
• Treatments: Choline

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Pregnant

• Between 10 and 18 weeks gestational age

• Healthy

• Diagnosis of psychosis

Exclusion Criteria:

• Use of any tobacco or nicotine product

• Drinks more than 1 alcoholic drink per day

• Use of illicit drugs

• History of trimethylaminuria

• History of kidney disease

• History of liver disease

• History of pre-pregnancy diabetes

• History of Parkinson's disease

• History of fetal death, fetal/infant congenital malformation, or fetal/infant genetic abnormality

• Evidence of noncompliance to study medication