Peptide Atlas · Vitamin

Folic acid

In a public-health programme in China covering about 248,000 pregnancies, 400 micrograms of folic acid a day around conception cut neural-tube defects by up to 85% in the northern high-risk region.

established

provisional
PubChem 135398658
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Pteroylglutamic acid
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What the evidence says

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established — replicated in humans, or settled by a regulator

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- established
  Claim: Periconceptional folic acid prevented neural-tube defects in China standing
- resolved
Prevention of neural-tube defects with folic acid in China. China-U.S. Collaborative Project for Neural Tube Defect Prevention.
Berry RJ, Li Z, Erickson JD, Li S, Moore CA, Wang H, Mulinare J, Zhao P, Wong LY, Gindler J, Hong SX, Correa A
pmid 10559448
- established
  Claim: Folic acid fortification reduced neural-tube defects by 46% in Canada standing
- resolved
Reduction in neural-tube defects after folic acid fortification in Canada.
De Wals P, Tairou F, Van Allen MI, Uh SH, Lowry RB, Sibbald B, Evans JA, Van den Hof MC, Zimmer P, Crowley M, Fernandez B, Lee NS, Niyonsenga T
pmid 17625125

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