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Folic acid and neural tube defects: Discovery, debate and the need for policy change

Neural tube defects (NTDs) are a group of relatively common fatal or severely disabling birth defects that result in about 300,000 cases a year world-wide. The search for a cause was elusive, but in 1991 it was shown that about 8 out of 10 cases are due to a lack of vitamin B9 (folate) and are there...

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Autor principal: Wald, Nicholas J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9381685/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35735352
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09691413221102321