Ejemplos de uso de NTD
1. It says that women should take a higher dose of folic acid (usually 4.0 to 5.0mg) if they are on medication for epilepsy or similar conditions, or if they have previously had a baby with NTD.
2. And it pointed out that the practice has been employed in other countries such as Chile, where NTD rates fell by 47 per cent, and the United States, where they dropped by a quarter.
3. Its recommendation will be discussed next week by the board of the Food Standards Agency. scroll down for more Supporters of the idea argue that adding folic acid to flour, particularly bread, would cut the number of NTD pregnancies by around a third, or 300 every year.
4. Its executive director, Andrew Russell, said: "Many lives are at stake and ministers must make a rapid decision on this." But Tory health spokesman Stephen O‘Brien said: "Action must be proportionate, not simply taken in deference to Labour‘s ever widening nanny state." Folic acid fortification is already compulsory in the U.S., Canada and Chile, where it has cut NTD rates by between 27 per cent and 50 per cent.