Prevention of neural tube defects in the UK: a missed opportunity.
In 1991, the Medical Research Council (MRC) Vitamin Study demonstrated that folic acid taken before pregnancy and in early pregnancy reduced the risk of a neural tube defect (NTD). We aimed to estimate the number of NTD pregnancies that would have been prevented if flour had been fortified with foli...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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BMJ Publishing Group
2015
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