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Study links folic acid supplements to asthma

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created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

A University of Adelaide study may have shed light on the rise in childhood asthma in developed countries like Australia in recent decades.


Immigrant women may be at higher risk of having a baby with a birth defect

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created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Immigrant women are less likely to use folic acid supplements before pregnancy to prevent spina bifida, particularly those who recently immigrated to the country, according to a new study led by a St. Michael's Hospital physician ...





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Folic acid to prevent congenital heart defects

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created May 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Canadian policy of fortifying grain products with folic acid has already proved to be effective in preventing neural tube defects. The latest article published in the British Medical Journal by a group of researchers from t ...


Folic acid cuts risk of cleft lip

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created Jan 26, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Taking folic acid supplements in early pregnancy seems to substantially reduce the risk of cleft lip, finds a new study published in the British Medical Journal.


Study finds folic acid supplements linked to higher risk of prostate cancer

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created Mar 10, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A study led by researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) found that men who took a daily folic acid supplement of 1 mg daily had more than twice the risk of prostate cancer compared with men who took a placebo.


Maternal exposure to folic acid antagonists increases risks

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created Dec 01, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Exposure to folic acid antagonists during pregnancy is associated with a higher risk of placenta-mediated adverse outcomes such as preeclampsia, placental abruption, fetal growth restriction or fetal death reports a retrospective ...


Preconceptional folic acid supplements are associated with reduced risk of premature birth

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created May 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Taking folic acid supplements for at least a year before conception is associated with reduction in the risk of premature birth, according to a study by Radek Bukowski (from the University of Texas Medical Branch, United ...


Treatment with folic acid, vitamin B12 associated with increased risk of cancer, death

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created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Patients with heart disease in Norway, a country with no fortification of foods with folic acid, had an associated increased risk of cancer and death from any cause if they had received treatment with folic acid and vitamin ...


Folic acid cuts risk of premature birth

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created Feb 01, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A U.S study suggests that women who take folic acid supplements before they become pregnant can cut their risk of having a premature baby by half.


Folic acid survey of Spanish-speaking women finds most are missing benefits

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created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Only 17 percent of Spanish-speaking women of childbearing age in the United States are taking a multivitamin containing folic acid daily, according to the first- nationally representative folic acid awareness survey to focus ...


Should you take folic acid? Too much may cause cancer; additional research suggested

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created Jun 11, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Folic acid is one of those great public health success stories. In the decade following fortification of cereal grains and other foods, the rate of certain birth defects dropped dramatically.


Health benefits, consequences of folic acid dependent on circumstances

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created Apr 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

For the past several decades, evidence has shown that greater dietary intake of the B-vitamin, folate, offers protection against the development of certain common cancers and reduces neural tube defects in newborns, opening ...



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