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NCT03524469Completed

Studying Infant Nutrition and Blood Sugar

Studying Infant Nutrition and Glycemia (SING)

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 31 Dec 2024

Brief summary (registry, in English)

The purpose of this study is to learn about how breast milk from mothers with insulin-resistance may be different. Investigators are specifically studying insulin concentrations in breast milk. Investigators are also studying how insulin in breast milk might affect a baby's intestines and pancreas.

Status (registry)
Completed
Study type
Observational
Enrollment
156 (actual)
First submitted
2 May 2018
Start date
1 Jun 2018
Primary completion date
1 Jun 2023
Lead sponsor
University of Rochester
Diseases
Obesity
NCT number
NCT03524469

What you commit to

  • Study type: Observational
  • Participants enrolled: 156
  • From 1 Jun 2018 to the primary completion date, 1 Jun 2023
  • 1 site in 1 country
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

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Who cannot take part

Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.

Prior treatment

  • Maternal insulin therapy after birth

Other illness

  • Significant maternal health concern including type 1 diabetes, renal, kidney, thyroid, or cardiovascular disease, pre-eclampsia, or other disease.

Lab values

  • Infant supplementation with infant formula (glucose gel or donor milk is acceptable)

Other

  • Scheduled C-sections or emergency C-sections with no labor (natural or induced)
  • Delivery before 37 weeks
  • Infant birth weight \<2500g
  • Infant medical or genetic indications that would impact normal feeding behavior, insulin signaling or growth patterns

Who the study is looking for

  • Mothers ≥ 19 years of age
  • Mothers intending to Exclusively Breastfeed for at least 5months
  • Mothers comfortable with feeding their infants expressed breast milk from a bottle at 2-weeks postpartum
  • Trial of labor (no scheduled C-sections)
  • Singleton birth
  • Healthy Infants
  • "Normal Weight" will be defined as pre-pregnant BMI between 18.5-23.9 kg/m2 and passing the 28 week oral glucose tolerance test.
  • "Insulin Resistance" will be defined as meeting any of the following:
    • pre-pregnant BMI ≥ 28 and failed the 28 week oral glucose screening test
    • pre-pregnant BMI ≥ 28 and diagnosis of either A1 ("diet controlled") or A2 ("insulin-requiring") gestational diabetes during pregnancy, but insulin therapy discontinued after birth.
    • pre-pregnant BMI ≥ 28 and diagnosed with type 2 diabetes during pregnancy
    • pre-pregnant BMI ≥ 30, and unmediated.

Age in the registry: 19 years to - · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (1)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
Clinical Research Center of the University of Rochester Medical Center
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RochesterUnited StatesUnknown status

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