Paternal characteristics associated with maternal periconceptional use of folic acid supplementation

• Main Authors: Jan Helge Seglem Mortensen (Author), Nina Øyen (Author), Roy M. Nilsen (Author), Tatiana Fomina (Author), Steinar Tretli (Author), Tone Bjørge (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Maternal predictors of folic acid (FA) supplementation use to reduce offspring risk of neural tube defects are well known, while paternal determinants for maternal FA use are less known. Such knowledge is important to increase women's compliance to recommended periconception...