GENERAL MEDICINE: Best Evidence Yet that Folic Acid Fortification Reduces Neural-Tube Defects

Audio Journal of Medicine, August 2nd 2007 Best Evidence Yet that Folic Acid Fortification Reduces Neural-Tube Defects REFERENCE: N Engl J Med 2007;357:135-42 PHILIPPE DE WALS, Laval University, Quebec Compulsory food fortification with folic acid has been given new impetus following findings from a Canadian study published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Fifty per cent fewer neural–tube defects were detected in the Canadian population after compulsory fortification of cereals as compared with before. Nicola Solomon spoke to Philippe De Wals to get details about his group's study.