Community Trial of Zinc Supplementation on Preschool Child Mortality and Morbidity in Southern Nepal
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Official title
Zinc Supplementation Impact on Child Mortality--Nepal
Brief summary
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The purpose of this study is to determine whether daily supplementation of young children in Nepal with either zinc, iron-folic acid, or both can reduce mortality and morbidity. Young children in Nepal have numerous nutritional deficiencies and high rates of morbidity and mortality. Zinc and/or iron supplementation may be a cost-effective method for reducing these risks.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT00109551
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase 3
- Lead sponsor
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
- NIH
- Enrollment
- 58,000 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
Drug
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 1 Month to 36 Months
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Sep 30, 2001
- Primary completion
- Not listed
- Completion
- Dec 31, 2005
- Last update posted
- Apr 30, 2013
2001 – 2006
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 2
- U.S. states
- 2
- U.S. cities
- 2
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health | Baltimore | Maryland | 21205-2103 | — |
| Cornell University Division of Nutritional Sciences | Ithaca | New York | 14853 | — |
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Non-U.S. locations
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- Last update posted Apr 30, 2013 · Synced Sep 2, 2026
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