Nutrition
Magnesium Linked to Lower Incidence of Cerebral Palsy
Published in Women's Health Weekly, February 15th, 1995
The findings come from a study sponsored by the California Birth Defects Monitoring Program (CBDMP) and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) (K.B. Nelson et al. "Can Magnesium Sulfate Reduce the Risk of Cerebral Palsy in Very Low Birthweight Infants'," Pediatrics, February 1995; 95(2):263).
The study compared a group of 42 very low birthweight children who had moderate or severe congenital CP to a control group of 75 very low birthweight children...
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