Status:

COMPLETED

Nutrition as a Determinant of Labor Outcome

Lead Sponsor:

Oslo University Hospital

Collaborating Sponsors:

University of Oslo

Conditions:

Labor, Obstetric

Eligibility:

FEMALE

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

This is a randomized, double-blind trial looking at how nutrition intake is associated with labor progress and complications.

Detailed Description

Insufficient intake of energy during labor may result in poor labor progress. The study investigates the effect of an energy supplement during labor.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Women at gestational age \> 36 weeks, parity 0

Exclusion

  • Gestational age \< 36 weeks
  • Signs of fetal pathology:
  • Different or abnormal (pathological) CTG test performed just before start of the test
  • Abnormal Doppler registrations (PI in the arteria umbilicae \> 2SD for the gestational age)
  • Established notch in the arteria uterinae or notch bilaterally or PI \> 2SD \> 24 weeks
  • Diverging in the weight of the fetus \> - 22% or diverging in the growth of the fetus - 10% or more, and established structural pathology in the fetus, oligohydramnion (amniotic fluid index \< 6)
  • Maternal diseases and pregnancy complications
  • diabetes in pregnancy
  • high blood pressure
  • cardiovascular diseases
  • rheumatic disease
  • epilepsia
  • lung disease, etc.
  • CTG test: cardiotocographic test (a measure of fetal activity)
  • PI: pulsatory index (velocity pattern)
  • SD: standard deviation

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

September 1 2006

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ESTIMATED

End Date :

December 1 2009

Estimated Enrollment :

200 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00367549

Start Date

September 1 2006

End Date

December 1 2009

Last Update

July 6 2011

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Kristin Kardel

Oslo, Norway, 0027