The primary prevention of birth defects: Multivitamins or folic acid?
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The primary prevention of birth defects: Multivitamins or folic acid?
Periconceptional use of folic acid alone or in multivitamin supplements is effective for the primary prevention of neural-tube defects. The Hungarian randomized and two-cohort controlled trials showed that periconceptional multivitamin supplementation can reduce the occurrence of some other structural birth defects, i.e. congenital abnormalities. These findings were supported by many, but not a...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Medical Sciences
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1449-1907
DOI: 10.7150/ijms.1.50