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| Name | Class |
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| Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven | OTHER |
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This cross-sectional study will try to give answers to the following project aims:
The study will be performed at the obstetrics department of the University Hospitals of Leuven (campus Gasthuisberg).
We aim to include 300 pregnant women (100 per trimester), of which 150 women will be asked to determine their vitamin status (50 per trimester).
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Pregnant women visiting the obstetrics department |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Medication use during pregnancy | Drug |
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| Supplement use during pregnancy |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Medication and supplement use among Belgian pregnant women | Percentage of women who have taken a health product during the last 7 days - Overview of the health products used by pregnant women | Completion of a questionnaire during pregnancy: between 8-12weeks or 24-32weeks gestational age |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Vitamin deficiencies among Belgian pregnant women | Analysis of a blood sample | One blood sample during pregnancy: between 8-12weeks or 24-32weeks gestational age |
| Medication beliefs among Belgian pregnant women |
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Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
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Pregnant women who visit the obstetrics department of the University Hospitals of Leuven (campus Gasthuisberg) will be invited to participate, independent of their pregnancy trimester.
Women can only participate once during their pregnancy.
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Veerle Foulon, PhD, PharmD | KU Leuven | Principal Investigator |
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| ID | Term |
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| D001361 | Avitaminosis |
| ID | Term |
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| D003677 | Deficiency Diseases |
| D044342 | Malnutrition |
| D009748 | Nutrition Disorders |
| D009750 | Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases |
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| Dietary Supplement |
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| Vitamin status of a pregnant woman | Other | Haemoglobin, RBC count + hematocrits, thrombocytes count, folate (serum), vitamin B12, WBC count, ferritin, iron (serum), transferrin % and saturation, TSH, T4, free glucose, LDH, ALT, AST, GGT, bilirubin (total), CRP, albumin, total protein, ureum, uric acid, creating, calcium (total), 25-hydroxy vitamin D, Na, K, Mg |
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Beliefs about Medicines Questionnaire (BMQ) (R. Horne, H. Nordeng)
| Completion of a questionnaire during pregnancy: between 8-12weeks or 24-32weeks gestational age |