Release: Daily folic acid supplement may reduce risk of gestational diabetes | NICHD - Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Release: Daily folic acid supplement may reduce risk of gestational diabetes | NICHD - Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Release: Daily folic acid supplement may reduce risk of gestational diabetes

NIH study suggests supplement that reduces risk of birth defects may also have maternal health benefit

Monday, April 29, 2019

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Taking a folic acid supplement daily before pregnancy may reduce the risk of gestational, or pregnancy-related, diabetes, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and other institutions. The findings appear in Diabetes Care.