Minimum effective dose of folic acid for food fortification to prevent neural-tube defects

Lancet

Volumn 350, Issue 9092, 1997, Pages 1666-1669

  Daly, Sean ^a,e   Mills, James L ^b   Molloy, Anne M ^c   Conley, Mary ^b   Lee, Young J ^b   Kirke, Peadar N ^d   Weir, Donald G ^c   Scott, John M ^c  

^a ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^d HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD   (Ireland)

^e THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; VITAMIN B GROUP;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOSE RESPONSE; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031566839     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(97)07247-4     Document Type: Article

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