Folic acid supplementation and risk for congenital limb reduction defects in China.,International Journal of Epidemiology

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Folic acid supplementation and risk for congenital limb reduction defects in China.
International Journal of Epidemiology ( IF 6.4 ) Pub Date : 2019-12-01 , DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyz130
Jufen Liu _{1,

2} , Zhiwen Li _{1,

2} , Rongwei Ye _{1,

2} , Aiguo Ren _{1,

2} , Jianmeng Liu _{1,

2}

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BACKGROUND Folic acid (FA) supplementation prevents neural tube defects, but there are mixed results for its ability to prevent limb reduction defects. We examined whether a preventive effect of FA supplementation exists for congenital limb reduction defects in a large population in China. METHODS Data from a large population-based cohort study in China were used to evaluate the effects of FA supplementation on birth defects. All births at 20 complete gestational weeks, including live births, stillbirths and pregnancy terminations, and all structural congenital anomalies, regardless of gestational week, were recorded. A total of 247 831 singleton live births delivered at gestational ages of 20-42 weeks to women from northern and southern China with full information on FA intake were included. Limb reduction defects were classified by subtype and maternal FA supplementation. RESULTS The prevalence of limb reduction defects was 2.7 per 10 000 births among women who took FA compared with 9.7 per 10 000 births among those who did not take FA in northern China; the prevalence was 4.5 and 3.8 per 10 000 births, respectively, in southern China. In both unadjusted and adjusted analyses, the estimated relative risk for upper limb reduction defects [odds ratio (OR) = 0.17, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.04, 0.63] and total limb reduction defects (OR = 0.24, 95% CI: 0.08, 0.70) in northern China, but not for lower limb reduction defects ,was significantly decreased in association with FA supplementation in northern China. There was no association between FA supplementation and either an increased or decreased risk for limb reduction defects in southern China. CONCLUSIONS FA supplementation successfully reduces the prevalence of limb reduction defects in northern China, whose population has low folate concentrations.

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