High rates of neural tube defects in Ukraine

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 400-402

  Yuskiv, Nataliya ^c   Andelin, Clark O ^b   Polischuk, Svitlana ^c   Shevchuk, Oleksandr ^d   Sosynyuk, Zoryana ^d   Vihovska, Tetyana ^c   Yevtushok, Lyubov ^d   Oakley Jr , Godfrey P ^b   Wertelecki, Wladimir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Volyn Reg Children's Terr Med C   (Ukraine)

^d Medical Diagnostic Center   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BIRTH DEFECT; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; EPIDEMIC; FLOUR; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; UKRAINE;

FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; HUMANS; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UKRAINE;

EID: 3042805300     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20020     Document Type: Article

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