Folic acid and neural tube defects
β Scribed by Minns, R A
- Book ID
- 109976466
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 336 KB
- Volume
- 34
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1362-4393
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## Abstract ## BACKGROUND: It is well established that women who have had a pregnancy affected by a neural tube defect (NTD) have an elevated risk of a subsequent NTDβaffected pregnancy and that a high dose (4 mg/day) of folic acid taken around the time of conception prevents most recurrences of N
There are many different naturally-occurring forms of folic acid, often referred to collectively as folate. Folic acid (pteroylmonoglutamate) does not occur in food, but is the form of folate in the supplements used in the studies referred to here. Because all forms of folate are metabolically linke