Identifying environmental risk factors for human neural tube defects before and after folic acid supplementation

Neural tube defects in Australia: Trends

Neural tube defects in Australia: Trends in encephaloceles and other neural tube defects before and after promotion of folic acid supplementation and voluntary food fortification

✍ Carol Bower; Heather D'Antoine; Fiona J. Stanley 📂 Article 📅 2009 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 89 KB 👁 3 views

## Abstract ## BACKGROUND: Use of periconceptional folic acid supplementation has been promoted in Western Australia since late 1992, and voluntary fortification of some foods with folic acid has been permitted in Australia since 1996. Reduced rates of neural tube defects (NTDs) have been observed