Identifying environmental risk factors for human neural tube defects before and after folic acid supplementation

BMC Public Health

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Liao, Yilan ^a,b   Wang, Jinfeng ^a   Li, Xinhu ^a   Guo, Yaoqin ^a   Zheng, Xiaoying ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CHINA; COAL MINING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NEWBORN; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMANS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70450263457     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-9-391     Document Type: Article

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