Epidemiology of neural tube defects and folic acid

This review article combines four disparate observations about Neural Tube Defects (NTDs). They are the worldwide decline in the birth incidence that began prior to prenatal diagnosis; family recurrence risks; the effect of prenatal diagnosis and termination of affected pregnancies; and the effect o...

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Autor principal: Shurtleff, David B
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2004
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC546400/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15679939
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-8454-1-5
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spelling pubmed-5464002005-02-02 Epidemiology of neural tube defects and folic acid Shurtleff, David B Cerebrospinal Fluid Res Commentary This review article combines four disparate observations about Neural Tube Defects (NTDs). They are the worldwide decline in the birth incidence that began prior to prenatal diagnosis; family recurrence risks; the effect of prenatal diagnosis and termination of affected pregnancies; and the effect of folic acid. BioMed Central 2004-12-10 /pmc/articles/PMC546400/ /pubmed/15679939 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-8454-1-5 Text en Copyright © 2004 Shurtleff; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Epidemiology of neural tube defects and folic acid
title Epidemiology of neural tube defects and folic acid
title_full Epidemiology of neural tube defects and folic acid
title_fullStr Epidemiology of neural tube defects and folic acid
title_full_unstemmed Epidemiology of neural tube defects and folic acid
title_short Epidemiology of neural tube defects and folic acid
title_sort epidemiology of neural tube defects and folic acid
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC546400/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15679939
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-8454-1-5
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