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Raccomandazione nazionale per la supplementazione preconcezionale di acido folico
NATIONAL RECOMMENDATION FOR THE PRE-CONCEPTIONAL USE OF FOLIC ACID
RENATA BORTOLUS1, PIERPAOLO MASTROIACOVO2
1ULSS 6, Vicenza;
2International Centre on Birth Defects, Roma
Febbraio 2005 - pagg. 111 -114
Abstract
A national recommendation for the pre-conceptional use of folic acid has become a reality
also in Italy. The “Network Italiano Promozione Acido Folico per la Prevenzione Primaria dei
Difetti Congeniti”, co-ordinated from the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, worked out a draft of the
recommendation, which was approved in November 2004. All women planning or at risk of
pregnancy are advised to take a daily folic acid supplement of at least 0.4 mg, beginning one
month before conception and continuing through the first trimester for prevention of neural tube
defects and other congenital malformations.
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Corrispondenza: bortolusrenata@libero.it
