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