Effects of folic acid fortification in the rates of malformations at birth in Chile;Efecto de la fortificación de la harina con ácido fólico sobre la evolución de las tasas de prevalencia al nacimiento de malformaciones congénitas en los hospitales chilenos del ECLAMC

Revista Medica de Chile

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 198-204

  Nazer H, Julio ^a,c   Cifuentes O, Lucía ^a   Aguila R, Alfredo ^a   Juárez H, María Eugenia ^a   Cid R, María Pía ^a   Godoy V, María Loreto ^a   García A, Karen ^a   Melibosky R, Francisco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR   (Chile)

^c Medicina Universidad Mayor ^*  (Chile)

Author keywords

Abnormalities; Folic acid; Nervous system malformations; Spinal dysraphism

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID;

ANENCEPHALUS; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGENITAL DISORDER; DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FLOUR; HUMAN; LIVE BIRTH; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; PREVALENCE; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; STILLBIRTH;

ANENCEPHALY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILE; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FLOUR; FOLIC ACID; FOOD, FORTIFIED; HERNIA, DIAPHRAGMATIC; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIVE BIRTH; PREVALENCE; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; STILLBIRTH;

EID: 33947610967     PISSN: 00349887     EISSN: 07176163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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