Lactoferrin Infant Feeding Trial - LIFT_Canada

PHASE3CompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

453

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

February 22, 2018

Primary Completion Date

July 27, 2022

Study Completion Date

November 25, 2024

Conditions
Preterm InfantVery Low Birth Weight InfantMorbidity;Newborn
Interventions
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Bovine Lactoferrin

Intervention includes a daily dose of 200 mg/kg bovine lactoferrin in breast/donor human milk or formula milk until 34 weeks corrected gestation or for a minimum of 2 weeks, whichever is longer, or until discharge home or transfer, if earlier.

OTHER

No Bovine Lactoferrin added

Control includes daily study feed with no bovine lactoferrin added in breast/donor human milk or formula milk until 34 weeks corrected gestation or for a minimum of 2 weeks, whichever is longer, or until discharge home or transfer, if earlier.

Trial Locations (9)

Unknown

Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary

Children's and Women's Health Centre BC, Vancouver

Health Sciences Centre Winnipeg, Winnipeg

Saint Boniface Hospital, Winnipeg

IWK Health Centre, Halifax

McMaster Children's Hospital, Hamilton

The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa

Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Sunnybrook Research Institute (Toronto, Ontario)

UNKNOWN

collaborator

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

OTHER_GOV

collaborator

National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia

OTHER

lead

Dr. Elizabeth Asztalos

OTHER

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