Folate Levels and Neural Tube Defects: Implications for Prevention

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 274, Issue 21, 1995, Pages 1698-1702

  Daly, Leslie E ^a   Kirke, Peadar N ^a   Molloy, Anne ^a   Weir, Donald G ^a   Scott, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ERYTHROCYTE LEVEL; FEMALE; FETUS; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; FOLIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0028863219     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1995.03530210052030     Document Type: Article

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