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closeHave neural tube defect rates increased?
Posted by margery on 26 Feb 2014 at 15:38 GMT
Very interesting large study. In Wales too, there is limited interest in giving preconceptual care which should include advice on folic acid usage. In the time frame reviewed, have the authors access to congenital anomaly data of sufficiently good quality to make a comment on the rates of neural tube defects in these areas?
Margery Morgan, lead clinician for CARIS, the Welsh Congenital Anomaly Register
RE: Have neural tube defect rates increased?
jpb166 replied to margery on 28 Feb 2014 at 15:32 GMT
Thank you for your enquiry. Unfortunately we do not have data on neural tube defect pregnancies in the women in our study as there were no congenital anomaly registers in the areas covered by our study
Jonathan P Bestwick, Wayne J Huttly, Joan K Morris, Nicholas J Wald
Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London