Protective effect of periconceptional folic acid supplements on the risk of congenital heart defects: a registry-based case-control study in the northern Netherlands
Aims To investigate the potentially protective of periconceptional folic acid use on the risk of congenital heart defects (CHDs) relative to other non-folate related malformations. Methods and results We analysed data from a large regional register of birth defects (EUROCAT—Northern Netherlands), over a 10 year period (1996–2005) for a case–control study. The cases were mothers who had delivered infants with isolated or complex heart defects, without any related syndrome or genetic abnormality ( n = 611). We used two control groups; one from the EUROCAT database and another from the general po... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | TEXT |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2010 |
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Oxford University Press
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Schlagwörter: | Congenital heart disease |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://eurheartj.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/31/4/464 |