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Diet & Nutrition
Folic acid remains public health priority
January 6th, 2005
Folic acid fortification is still an urgent global health priority, says one epidemiologist in an editorial accompanying publication of an article in the December 11, 2004, British Medical Journal (BMJ) that asks if folate supplements in pregnancy increase breast cancer risk. The results, Godfrey P. Oakley Jr., MD, of Emory University, Atlanta, says, are most likely a "statistical fluke." The preliminary data from the study were reported by Andy Ness and research teams from the University of Bristol and University of Aberdeen in the U.K. They followed up on 2,928 pregnant women who were enrolled in a trial of folate supplementation in the...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-01-06)
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