Clinical Trial: Vitamin D Supplementation Among Pregnant Women in Uganda for the Prevention of Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy, and Other Adverse Maternal and Foetal Outcomes

U.S., April 4 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07510568) titled 'Vitamin D Supplementation Among Pregnant Women in Uganda for the Prevention of Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy, and Other Adverse Maternal and Foetal Outcomes' on March 22.

Brief Summary: The goal of this randomised controlled trial is to investigate if vitamin D supplementation among pregnant women in Uganda prevents adverse maternal and foetal outcomes, with special emphasis on preeclampsia.

The main question it aims to answer is if Vitamin D supplementation, administered as oral vitamin D₃ at a dose of 2,000 IU once daily, from the time of recruitment to the time of delivery, reduces the incidence of preeclampsia, ecla...