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News items on 'Congenital Heart Disease In Children'
Folic acid protects baby hearts
(BBC 13/05/2009)
Mandatory fortification of bread with folic acid would slash the risk of babies being born with a heart problem, experience from Canada shows. Rates of severe congenital heart defects among newborns in Quebec fell significantly after the move to fortify flour and pasta began in 1998. The British Medical Journal online study lends support to calls for introducing fortification to Europe. But others argue against this, saying it would inevitably harm some people.
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