maternal vitamin B12 deficiency and neural tube defect risk

Ray and colleagues raise an important point on folic acid fortification. This is a very contentious subject, with well developed battle grounds.Folic acid fortification is advocated to prevent or reduce the incidence of foetal neural tube defects in babies. A terrible blight for those afflicted.Folic acid fortification was universally introduced in Canada in 1998 ,…

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