Higher Rate of Multiple Births after Periconceptional Vitamin Supplementation
- 9 June 1994
- journal article
- letter
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 330 (23) , 1687-1688
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199406093302314
Abstract
Periconceptional supplementation with multivitamins including folic acid or with folic acid alone can reduce both the first occurrence and the recurrence of neural-tube defects1-3. We examined the effect of such supplementation on multiple births.Keywords
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