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Preconception counseling and women's compliance with folic acid supplementation
A Pastuszak1, D Bhatia, B Okotore
1Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto.
Canadian Family Physician Medecin De Famille Canadien
|October 6, 1999
Abstract
Question:
I am counseling patients to take folic acid when they plan pregnancy and during early pregnancy. Is there any proof that counseling really causes women to comply?
Answer:
A recent Motherisk study showed that counseling women who were planning pregnancy about folic acid use is very effective: 71% of those counseled took folic acid, compared with only 17% of those who were not counseled.