Thousands of UK birth defects ’caused by failure to fortify flour with folic acid’
Fortification of flour with folic acid is not mandatory in the UK, which has resulted in more than 2,000 avoidable cases of neural tube defects in the country since 1998.
December 18, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: country, folic-acid, neural-tube, not-mandatory, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, pregnancy / obstetrics, the-country
1,300 babies each year saved from serious birth defects of brain and spine by folic acid
Fortifying grain foods with the B vitamin folic acid has saved about 1,300 babies every year from being born with serious birth defects of the brain and spine known as neural tube defects (NTDs)…
January 19, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: 300-babies, brain, every-year, from-being, grain-foods, known-as-neural, neural-tube, nutritional counseling, pregnancy / obstetrics, serious-birth, the-brain, vitamin-folic
Study Looks At High Folate Gestational And Post-Weaning Diets
During pregnancy, women are normally advised to take high amounts of multivitamin supplements. In particular, folate is recommended to reduce the risk of neural tube defects in newborns…
July 16, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: neural-tube, normally-advised, nutrition, nutritional counseling, pregnancy / obstetrics, reduce-the-risk, risk, take-high
Mutation Of A Key Folic Acid Enzyme Causes Neural Tube Defects In Mice
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered that the lack of a critical enzyme in the folic acid metabolic pathway leads to neural tube birth defects in developing embryos…
January 21, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: austin, birth-defects, critical-enzyme, neural-tube, nutrition, nutritional counseling, pathway-leads, pregnancy / obstetrics, texas, texas-at-austin, the-folic
Increased Consumption Of Folic Acid Can Reduce Birth Defects But Blood Levels In Canadians Are Now High
Folic acid can reduce birth defects including neural tube defects, congenital heart disease and oral clefts but some speculate high intakes of folic acid may be associated with adverse events such as colorectal cancer, states an article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal)…
December 9, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: adverse-events, cmaj, defects-including, folic-acid, neural-tube, nutrition / diet, speculate-high, such-as-colorectal