Thirty years ago, researchers suggested that maternal intake of certain vitamins during pregnancy affected the incidence of serious birth defects. Since then, two randomized controlled trials and several observational studies have proven that if women take folic acid during the periconceptional peri
Is 5-methyltetrahydrofolate an alternative to folic acid for the prevention of neural tube defects?
✍ Scribed by Obeid, Rima; Holzgreve, Wolfgang; Pietrzik, Klaus
- Book ID
- 125450233
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 595 KB
- Volume
- 41
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0300-5577
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