ArticleMaternal and child health journal2007
Pilot study of socioeconomic class, nutrition and birth defects in Spain.
Article in Maternal and child health journal, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Pooled it
- Epidemiology of the neural tube defects in Kashmir Valley.Surgical neurology international · 2016Article
- Prevalence of birth defects and risk-factor analysis from a population-based survey in Inner Mongolia, China.BMC pediatrics · 2012Article
- Neural tube defects: an analysis of neighbourhood- and individual-level socio-economic characteristics.Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology · 2009Article
- Epidemiology of the neural tube defects in Kashmir Valley.Journal of pediatric neurosciencesArticle
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Abstract
Research has indicated that the appropriate intake of folic acid, a B vitamin, before and during early pregnancy has been shown to prevent 50-70% of neural-tube defects. Increased NTD incidence has long been reported to occur more frequently among women of lower socioeconomic (SES). Since consumption of the folate-rich Mediterranean diet in Spain does not vary by socio-economic status (SES), we hypothesized that there would be no social class effect on NTD occurrence. Using data from a Spanish hospital-based birth defects registry, we studied the risk of Neural Tube Defects (NTDs) in 980 cases and 774 controls between 1980 and 2003. Our analysis showed that the risk of NTDs did not vary by SES. This finding suggests that increased access to folate and nutrition education might benefit women of lower SES in the US.
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