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Awareness and use of folic acid among women of childbearing age in Benue State, Nigeria

INTRODUCTION: every year in Nigeria 12,695 babies are born with neural tube defects. Folic acid reduces the risk of neural tube defect by about 50% among peri-conceptional users. We conducted this study to determine the awareness and use of folic acid among women of childbearing age in Benue State,...

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Autores principales:	Okon, Ubong Akpan, Ibrahim, Baffa Sule, Usman, Rabi, Adedire, Elizabeth, Balogun, Muhammad Shakir, Olayinka, Adebola
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020
Materias:	Research
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7648467/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33209187 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.37.60.22848

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