
A Canadian study has offered invaluable advice to women of childbearing age, who would indeed be wise to include a multivitamin daily, to cut the risks of delivering a child with birth defects.
The new research has indicated that by being regular with intake of vitamins and minerals, the risk of many severe birth defects can be offset. The defects that can be offset include neural-tube defects such as spina bifida, brain-damaging hydrocephalus, heart malformations, truncated or missing limbs, urinary-tract abnormalities and cleft palate.
Gideon Koren, director of the Motherisk Program at the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children, said "The data are really very striking. It seems almost too good to be true that a prenatal multivitamin can have such an impact. But it is true."
Source: Medindia
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