Multivitamin/folic acid supplementation in early pregnancy reduces the prevalence of neural tube defects.

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Published in JAMA on November 24, 1989

Authors

A Milunsky1, H Jick, S S Jick, C L Bruell, D S MacLaughlin, K J Rothman, W Willett

Author Affiliations

1: Center for Human Genetics, Boston University School of Medicine, MA 02118-2394.

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