Supplementation with folate vs no intervention, placebo or other micronutrients without folate (neonatal outcomes)
Neural tube defects (All) · all women who become pregnant or were 12 or less weeks' pregnant at the time of the intervention
Supplementation with folate leads to lower neural tube defects (All) compared with no intervention, placebo or other micronutrients without folate… (high certainty).
1 finding from 1 review
- Effects and safety of periconceptional oral folate supplementation for preventing birth defects 2015 · Cochrane Headline outcomes onlyRR 0.31 [0.17, 0.58]5 studies · 6708 participantsHigh