Folic Acid Supplementation and Spontaneous Preterm Birth: Adding Grist to the Mill?
Open Access
- 12 May 2009
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 6 (5), e1000077
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000077
Abstract
Nicholas Fisk and colleagues discuss a new study reporting that additional voluntary folic acid supplementation was associated with a major reduction in very preterm births.Keywords
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