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- From: jsmith@unixg.ubc.ca (JR Smith)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: vitamin and pregnancy questions
- Date: 21 Jan 93 07:26:49 GMT
- Organization: The University of British Columbia
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- Re: Vitamins in pregnancy further info.
- The vitamin C supplementation leading to newborn scurvy was described in two
- cases in 1965 in woman who received only 400mg supplement per day. No
- subsequent description of this has been made and a large study could not
- demonstrate newborn scurvy at levels of 2000mg per day supplementation.
- Go figure!
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- Further on folate is that the Hungarian study has been published in the New
- England Journal of Medicine on Dec 24/92 (I must have had something else on
- the go but it escapes me). There was a significant reduction in NTD in
- women on a folate containing multivitamin vrs a group on trace mineral
- supplementation only. The study was randomized, double blind and in a low
- risk population. The dose was 0.8 mg which is less than that used in the
- study of high risk women. Folate is available over the counter in a 1 mg
- tablet which should do nicely. Look for recommendations for routine
- periconceptional folate supplementation to appear soon.
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