BIOS601 Resources: Applications: Folic Acid, Neural Tube (Birth) Defects

[updated August 32, 2007]

. Elizabeth D. Hibbard and R. W. Smithells. FOLIC ACID METABOLISM AND HUMAN EMBRYOPATHY. Lancet I, Page 1254, 1965

Richard W Smithells

Neural tube defects, folic acid

Ray JG, Vermeulen MJ, Boss SC, Cole DE. Declining rate of folate insufficiency among adults following increased folic acid food fortification in Canada. Can J Public Health. 2002 Jul-Aug;93(4):249-53.

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. Reduction in neural-tube defects after folic acid fortification in Canada. N Engl J Med. 2007 Jul 12;357(2):135-42