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    Mothers with epilepsy taking large doses of folic acid during pregnancy can increase their child's risk of cancer

    • Last Update: 2022-09-30
    • Source: Internet
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    If the mother is particularly likely to give birth to a child with a congenital malformation, then large doses of folic acid can prevent congenital malformations
    .


    The Scandinavian registration-based cohort study is part of the SCAN-AED project, a large study containing several
    national health registries from Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden).


    Hkon Magne Vegrim, MD and doctoral student and principal investigator at the University of Bergen, said: "We did not find an increased
    risk of cancer in children of epileptic mothers who took large doses of folic acid.


    Folic acid is important
    for the normal growth of the fetus and brain development.


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