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Folate Bioavailability and Health
1 Jan 2002
Abstract excerpt
The vitamin folate has been largely responsible for a fundamental shift in our perception of the role of vitamins in maintaining health. Ten years ago, two independent clinical trials showed that supplementing a woman's diet with folic acid before and during early pregnancy reduced the prevalence of neural tube defects (NTDs) by more than 70%. A remarkable aspect was that folic acid supplementation was not...
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