Prevention of Neural Tube Defects in Europe: A Public Health Failure

Objective: Thirty years ago it was demonstrated that folic acid taken before pregnancy and in early pregnancy reduced the risk of a neural tube defect (NTD). Despite Public Health Initiatives across Europe recommending that women take 0.4 mg folic acid before becoming pregnant and during the first t...

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Main Author: Morris, Joan K. (author)
Other Authors: Addor, Marie-Claude (author), Ballardini, Elisa (author), Barisic, Ingeborg (author), Barrachina-Bonet, Laia (author), Braz, Paula (author), Cavero-Carbonell, Clara (author), Den Hond, Elly (author), Garne, Ester (author), Gatt, Miriam (author), Haeusler, Martin (author), Khoshnood, Babak (author), Lelong, Nathalie (author), Kinsner-Ovaskainen, Agnieszka (author), Kiuru-Kuhlefelt, Sonja (author), Klungsoyr, Kari (author), Latos-Bielenska, Anna (author), Limb, Elizabeth (author), O'Mahony, Mary T. (author), Perthus, Isabelle (author), Pierini, Anna (author), Rankin, Judith (author), Rissmann, Anke (author), Rouget, Florence (author), Sayers, Gerardine (author), Sipek, Antonin (author), Stevens, Sarah (author), Tucker, David (author), Verellen-Dumoulin, Christine (author), de Walle, Hermien E.K. (author), Wellesley, Diana (author), Wertelecki, Wladimir (author), Bermejo-Sanchez, Eva (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2022
Subjects:
Neural Tube Defects (NTD)
Folic Acid
Europe
Portugal
EUROCAT
European Surveillance of Congenital Anomalies
RENAC
Registo Nacional de Anomalias Congénitas
Estados de Saúde e de Doença
Observação em Saúde e Vigilância
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.18/7916
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.insa.pt:10400.18/7916

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