Stroke

Folic acid fortification may have lowered stroke deaths

Published in Heart Disease Weekly, April 4th, 2004

Fortifying enriched grain products with folic acid in the 1990s appears to have been followed by a decline in stroke and ischemic heart disease deaths, U.S. government researchers reported at the American Heart Association's 44th annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention in San Francisco.

"We found evidence of a three-fold acceleration in the decline of stroke-associated mortality that is temporally related to fortification of flour with folic acid," said study investigator Lorenzo D. Botto, MD, a medical epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities in...

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