Skin Lipid Profiles in Term and Preterm Infants

Completed

Conditions studied: Preterm Infants

In brief

This study is designed to compare the skin lipid and protein composition between term and premature infants and determine how the skin composition changes over the first four weeks of life. The investigators hope to elucidate the unique characteristics of premature skin by measuring the lipid and protein content in skin, how it changes during the first month of life, and how it varies with formula feeding versus breast feeding. Additionally, the investigators will study the relationships among diet, skin composition and plasma lipids in premature infants over the first four weeks of life.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01841268

Run by

University of California, Davis

People needed

25

Starts

2010-05-01

Expected to finish

2016-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2019-07-02

Who can join

Age: any, up to 0. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• infants who are likely to be inpatients in the NICU for at least 4 weeks

You may not qualify if…

• congenital or acquired skin disease,
• cyanotic congenital heart disease,
• neonates that are not viable and
• those with lethal anomalies such as anencephaly, trisomy 13, trisomy 18, renal agenesis

Where it is running

• University of California, Davis — Davis, California, United States
• University of California Davis Medical Center NICU — Sacramento, California, United States

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