Most Important Health Messages for Your Patients
When it comes to folic acid, there are a handful of key messages health care providers should make sure their patients are aware of. Some research has shown that folic acid also may help protect babies from other birth defects of the heart, limbs ... [... more]
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March of Dimes Information for Patients
As part of our work to promote folic acid, the March of Dimes offers a number of valuable resources that providers can use with their patients, including educational brochures. Physicians and other health care experts review all clinical ... [... more]
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U.S. Goverment Recommendations
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommends that women capable of becoming pregnant take 400 micrograms (0.4 mg) of synthetic folic acid daily to reduce the risk of a pregnancy affected by a neural tube defect. The Centers for Disease Control and ... [... more]
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Institute of Medicine Recommendations
In 1998 the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommended that women capable of becoming pregnant should take 400 micrograms of synthetic folic acid daily to reduce their risk for an ... [... more]
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Resources
The National Council on Folic Acid and the Association of Schools of Public Health provide information on folic acid, a B vitamin that may prevent neural tube defects (NTDs). Spina bifida is an NTD. To reduce folic-acid preventable birth defects ... [... more]
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November 2006 (R 3-08)
Folic acid is a B vitamin that helps prevent birth defects of the brain and spinal cord called neural tube defects (NTDs). It works to prevent birth defects if taken before conception and during early pregnancy. Because NTDs originate in the ... [... more]
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Outreach to Health Care Professionals
This screen contains links to national and state educational resources about folic acid and neural tube defects for doctors, nurses and other health care professionals. Listed below are links to national and state educational resources about ... [... more]
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