Folic acid awareness and supplementation among Texas women of childbearing age

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 27-30

  Canfield, Mark A ^a   Przybyla, Sarahmona M ^b   Case, Amy P ^a   Ramadhani, Tunu ^a   Suarez, Lucina ^a   Dyer, James ^c  

^a TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Awareness; Birth defects; Folic acid; Hispanic; Knowledge; Supplementation; Texas Mexico border

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; KNOWLEDGE; MEXICO; POPULATION; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; TELEPHONE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AWARENESS; DATA COLLECTION; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; HUMANS; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; TEXAS;

EID: 33745345178     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2006.01.022     Document Type: Article

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