2008
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwn331
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Neural Tube Defects and Maternal Folate Intake Among Pregnancies Conceived After Folic Acid Fortification in the United States

Abstract: Rates of neural tube defects have decreased since folic acid fortification of the food supply in the United States. The authors' objective was to evaluate the associations between neural tube defects and maternal folic acid intake among pregnancies conceived after fortification. This is a multicenter, case-control study that uses data from the National Birth Defects Prevention Study, 1998-2003. Logistic regression was used to compute crude and adjusted odds ratios between cases and controls assessing maternal … Show more

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“…Finally, it is possible that the postfortification NTDs are folate resistant and that further fortification will not be necessary. Mosley et al 41 did a case-control study in which cases and controls were sorted in quartiles in terms of folic acid supplementation use and dietary folate intake. There was no difference between cases and controls for any of the quartiles, suggesting that even at the lowest levels of intake, the amount of folic acid that was ingested was sufficient to prevent folate-sensitive NTDs.…”
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“…Finally, it is possible that the postfortification NTDs are folate resistant and that further fortification will not be necessary. Mosley et al 41 did a case-control study in which cases and controls were sorted in quartiles in terms of folic acid supplementation use and dietary folate intake. There was no difference between cases and controls for any of the quartiles, suggesting that even at the lowest levels of intake, the amount of folic acid that was ingested was sufficient to prevent folate-sensitive NTDs.…”
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“…This is important to consider because although many governments, including the New Zealand Government, recommend that reproductive-age women consume a daily supplemental intake of 400 mg folic acid in the periconceptional period, it is increasingly acknowledged that the level of folic acid required to prevent most folate-responsive NTD may be lower (26,27) . For example, the USA and Canada implemented mandatory fortification of enriched grain products in 1998.…”
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“…The most frequent association reported in the literature is the nutritional deficit of vitamins and minerals as folic acid and zinc during pregnancy [3], [4]. The supplementation with folic acid prior to becoming pregnant and during pregnancy reduces the risk of neural tube defects [5].…”
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