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- Clinical Trial NCT05646940
Fact-based Nutrition for Infants and Lactating Mothers (NUTRISHIELD)
March 6, 2024 updated by: Julia Kuligowski, Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria La Fe
Fact-based Nutrition for Infants and Lactating Mothers - The NUTRISHIELD Study
Human milk (HM) is the ideal source of nutrients for infants, but its composition is highly variable.
When not enough own mother's milk (OMM) is available, the administration of pasteurized donor human milk (DHM) is considered the best alternative for feeding preterm infants (PI).
The aim of this study is to evaluate the influence of diet, lifestyle habits, psychological stress, and pasteurization on the milk composition, and how it modulates infant's growth, health, and development.
NUTRISHIELD is a prospective mother-infant birth cohort in the Spanish-Mediterranean area including three groups: PI <32 weeks of gestation (i) exclusively receiving OMM (i.e., >80% v/v of total intake), and (ii) exclusively receiving DHM, and (iii) term infants (TI) exclusively receiving OMM, as well as their mothers, and HM donors.
Biological samples and nutritional, clinical, and anthropometric characteristics are collected at six time points covering the period from birth and until six months of infant's age (complete enteral nutrition (CEN) / recovery birth weight (RBW), and one, two, three, and six months).
An additional assessment at two years (corrected age for PI) is conducted, in order to study long-term effects on neurodevelopment.
Study Overview
Status
Completed
Conditions
Detailed Description
The genotype, metabolome, and microbiota as well as the HM composition (i.e., macronutrients, fatty acids, vitamins, human milk oligosaccharides, and steroids) are characterized.
Portable sensor prototypes for the analysis of HM and urine are benchmarked.
Additionally, maternal psychosocial status is measured at the beginning of the study and at month six, including social support, family functioning, perceived stress, anxiety, and depression symptoms, and traumatic life events.
Mother-infant postpartum bonding and parental stress is also examined.
At six months (corrected age for preterm groups), infant neurodevelopment scales are applied.
Mother's concerns and attitudes to breastfeeding are also registered through a specific questionnaire at CEN/RBW and six months.
An additional assessment at two years (corrected age for PI) is conducted, in order to study long-term effects on neurodevelopment.
Current knowledge on the importance of diet and other environmental factors for infant growth, health, and development is limited and donor-matching at HM banks is frequently only based on gestational age and total protein content of HM.
NUTRISHIELD provides an in-depth longitudinal study of the mother-infant-microbiota triad combining multiple biological matrices, newly developed analytical methods, and ad-hoc designed sensor prototypes with a wide range of clinical outcome measures.
Data obtained from this study will be used to train a machine-learning algorithm for providing dietary advice to lactating mothers and will be implemented in a user-friendly platform based on a combination of user-provided information and biomarker analysis.
A better understanding of the factors affecting the milk's composition, together with the health implications for infants plays an important role in developing improved strategies of nutraceutical management in infant care.
Study Type
Observational
Enrollment (Actual)
86
Contacts and Locations
This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.
Study Locations
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Valencia, Spain, 46026
- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria La Fe
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Participation Criteria
Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
- Child
- Adult
- Older Adult
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Sampling Method
Non-Probability Sample
Study Population
Three mother-infant groups were enrolled, i.e., PI-OMM, PI-DHM, and TI-OMM, and their mothers.
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Acceptance of the mother to participate and sign an informed consent form
- A gestational age < 32 weeks for the group of PI and > 37 weeks for the group of TI
- Exclusive consumption (i.e., >80% v/v of total intake) of either OMM or DHM.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Non-compliance with any of the inclusion criteria
- The requirement of a special diet for the mother (e.g., celiac disease, diabetes) or maternal consumption of probiotics
- The need of intestinal surgery, severe congenital malformations, or chromosomopathies of the infant
- Mother's residence outside the Valencian Community
- Severe language barriers hampering the collection of necessary data from mothers not speaking Spanish and/or English
Study Plan
This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Observational Models: Case-Control
- Time Perspectives: Prospective
Cohorts and Interventions
Group / Cohort |
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PI-OMM
25 PI fed with OMM and their mothers
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PI-DHM
25 PI fed with DHM and their mothers
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TI-OMM
25 TI fed with OMM and their mothers as control group
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Infants' health
Time Frame: From birth to month 24
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To evaluate associations between HM composition (OMM or DHM) on growth and other health parameters in PI and TI
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From birth to month 24
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Maternal nutrition and HM composition
Time Frame: From birth to 6 months
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Evaluate associations between the mother's diet and HM composition in PI and TI (i.e., how the potential association between mother's diet and HM nutrient composition is affected by prematurity), and between HM composition and mother's physical and psychosocial status (e.g., lifestyle, perceived stress, anxiety and depression)
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From birth to 6 months
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HM pasteurization
Time Frame: Up to 6 months
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To evaluate the effect of pasteurization/storage on DHM composition
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Up to 6 months
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Collaborators and Investigators
This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Julia Kuligowski, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria La Fe
Publications and helpful links
The person responsible for entering information about the study voluntarily provides these publications. These may be about anything related to the study.
General Publications
- Ten-Domenech I, Ramos-Garcia V, Pineiro-Ramos JD, Gormaz M, Parra-Llorca A, Vento M, Kuligowski J, Quintas G. Current Practice in Untargeted Human Milk Metabolomics. Metabolites. 2020 Jan 22;10(2):43. doi: 10.3390/metabo10020043.
- Ramos-Garcia V, Ten-Domenech I, Albiach-Delgado A, Gomez-Ferrer M, Sepulveda P, Parra-Llorca A, Campos-Berga L, Moreno-Gimenez A, Quintas G, Kuligowski J. Isolation and Lipidomic Screening of Human Milk Extracellular Vesicles. Methods Mol Biol. 2023;2571:177-188. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2699-3_18.
- Ten-Domenech I, Ramos-Garcia V, Moreno-Torres M, Parra-Llorca A, Gormaz M, Vento M, Kuligowski J, Quintas G. The effect of Holder pasteurization on the lipid and metabolite composition of human milk. Food Chem. 2022 Aug 1;384:132581. doi: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2022.132581. Epub 2022 Feb 26.
- Pineiro-Ramos JD, Parra-Llorca A, Ten-Domenech I, Gormaz M, Ramon-Beltran A, Cernada M, Quintas G, Collado MC, Kuligowski J, Vento M. Effect of donor human milk on host-gut microbiota and metabolic interactions in preterm infants. Clin Nutr. 2021 Mar;40(3):1296-1309. doi: 10.1016/j.clnu.2020.08.013. Epub 2020 Aug 19.
- Poulimeneas D, Bathrellou E, Antonogeorgos G, Mamalaki E, Kouvari M, Kuligowski J, Gormaz M, Panagiotakos DB, Yannakoulia M; NUTRISHIELD Consortium. Feeding the preterm infant: an overview of the evidence. Int J Food Sci Nutr. 2021 Feb;72(1):4-13. doi: 10.1080/09637486.2020.1754352. Epub 2020 Apr 27.
- Ramos-Garcia V, Ten-Domenech I, Vento M, Bullich-Vilarrubias C, Romani-Perez M, Sanz Y, Nobili A, Falcone M, Di Stefano M, Quintas G, Kuligowski J. Fast profiling of primary, secondary, conjugated, and sulfated bile acids in human urine and murine feces samples. Anal Bioanal Chem. 2023 Aug;415(20):4961-4971. doi: 10.1007/s00216-023-04802-8. Epub 2023 Jun 20.
- Ramos-Garcia V, Ten-Domenech I, Moreno-Gimenez A, Campos-Berga L, Parra-Llorca A, Solaz-Garcia A, Lara-Canton I, Pinilla-Gonzalez A, Gormaz M, Vento M, Kuligowski J, Quintas G. GC-MS analysis of short chain fatty acids and branched chain amino acids in urine and faeces samples from newborns and lactating mothers. Clin Chim Acta. 2022 Jul 1;532:172-180. doi: 10.1016/j.cca.2022.05.005. Epub 2022 May 8.
- Akhgar CK, Nurnberger V, Nadvornik M, Ramos-Garcia V, Ten-Domenech I, Kuligowski J, Schwaighofer A, Rosenberg E, Lendl B. Fatty Acid Determination in Human Milk Using Attenuated Total Reflection Infrared Spectroscopy and Solvent-Free Lipid Separation. Appl Spectrosc. 2022 Jun;76(6):730-736. doi: 10.1177/00037028211065502. Epub 2022 Feb 4.
- Ramos-Garcia V, Ten-Domenech I, Moreno-Gimenez A, Campos-Berga L, Parra-Llorca A, Ramon-Beltran A, Vaya MJ, Mohareb F, Molitor C, Refinetti P, Silva A, Rodrigues LA, Rezzi S, Hodgson ACC, Canarelli S, Bathrellou E, Mamalaki E, Karipidou M, Poulimeneas D, Yannakoulia M, Akhgar CK, Schwaighofer A, Lendl B, Karrer J, Migliorelli D, Generelli S, Gormaz M, Vasileiadis M, Kuligowski J, Vento M. Fact-based nutrition for infants and lactating mothers-The NUTRISHIELD study. Front Pediatr. 2023 Apr 18;11:1130179. doi: 10.3389/fped.2023.1130179. eCollection 2023.
- Ramos-Garcia V, Ten-Domenech I, Moreno-Gimenez A, Campos-Berga L, Parra-Llorca A, Gormaz M, Vento M, Karipidou M, Poulimeneas D, Mamalaki E, Bathrellou E, Kuligowski J. Joint Microbiota Activity and Dietary Assessment through Urinary Biomarkers by LC-MS/MS. Nutrients. 2023 Apr 14;15(8):1894. doi: 10.3390/nu15081894.
Study record dates
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Study Major Dates
Study Start (Actual)
October 1, 2020
Primary Completion (Actual)
July 31, 2022
Study Completion (Actual)
December 31, 2023
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
December 2, 2022
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
December 2, 2022
First Posted (Actual)
December 12, 2022
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
March 8, 2024
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
March 6, 2024
Last Verified
March 1, 2024
More Information
Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- 818110
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
UNDECIDED
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
No
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
No
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