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OBJECTIVE
To evaluate ischemia-modified albumin (IMA) in women who had been pregnant with a child suffering from neural tube defect.
METHODS
Samples from 50 women who had been pregnant with an affected child (25 spina bifida, 25 anencephaly) and 25 controls matched for age, gestational age, and body
Zinc is essential for normal embryogenesis and may have particular importance for closure of the human neural tube. Compared to 258 controls, we found increased zinc content in umbilical cord serum in eight of nine newborn anencephalics (p less than 0.02) and three infants with spina bifida (p less
OBJECTIVE
The association between vitamin D deficiency and abnormal neural development has been proposed previously. We aimed to evaluate maternal serum vitamin D levels in pregnancies complicated by neural tube defects (NTDs) and compared them with healthy pregnant women.
METHODS
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