Folate intake and the primary prevention of non-neural birth defects

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 258-261

  Bower, Carol ^a,b   Miller, Margaret ^a   Payne, Jan ^a   Serna, Peta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Western Australian Birth Defects Registry   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIRTH DEFECT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LIMB REDUCTION DEFECT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK REDUCTION; URINARY TRACT MALFORMATION; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DIET; DIET THERAPY; DOSE RESPONSE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; LIMB MALFORMATION; MATERNAL CARE; METHODOLOGY; MOUTH DISEASE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; RISK; URINARY TRACT;

ABNORMALITIES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DIET; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; LIMB DEFORMITIES, CONGENITAL; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MOUTH ABNORMALITIES; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; ODDS RATIO; PRECONCEPTION CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PRENATAL CARE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; URINARY TRACT; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33747094531     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.2006.tb00867.x     Document Type: Article

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