Folic acid supplements and risk for oral clefts in the newborn: a population-based study

The British Journal of Nutrition
Trude GildestadNina Øyen

Abstract

Results from previous studies on maternal folic acid intake and infant oral clefts are inconclusive. The aim of the present study was to investigate the association between women's use of folic acid and/or multivitamin supplements and the risk for oral cleft in the newborn. We used data from the Medical Birth Registry of Norway based on all births in Norway from 1999 to 2013. A total of 528 220 women had 880 568 pregnancies, resulting in 896 674 live births and stillbirths, of which 1623 had oral clefts (isolated oral clefts, n 1311; non-isolated oral clefts, n 312). Altogether, 21·5% of women were vitamin supplement users before pregnancy. The birth prevalence of oral clefts was 1·81/1000 live births and stillbirths. Relative risks (RR) were estimated with log-binomial regression. For pregnancies with maternal use of vitamins, the adjusted RR for clefts overall was 0·90 (95% CI 0·79, 1·04). The adjusted RR for cleft palate only (n 586) was 0·84 (95% CI 0·66, 1·06) and that for cleft lip with or without cleft palate (n 1037) was 0·94 (95% CI 0·79, 1·13). Associations were stronger for cleft cases that occurred in combination with other malformations (adjusted RR 0·63; 95% CI 0·45, 0·88), although vitamin supplements provided no...Continue Reading

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