Gynos have been telling their patients to take folic acid, not just one dose, but daily, so a new way to get your folic acid in: taking birth control pills! The birth control pills Yasmin an d Yaz have now added folic acid and thus become Safryal and Beyaz . Although folic acid and derivatives have been associated with lowering cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in adults, we still caution use of OCs by those over 35 who smoke, or in any women with pre-existing risk factors for strokes or other cardiovascular disease, just a bit of folic acid is not going to combat all woes for the adult female! But the extra folic acid is important for a potential developing pregnancy. Folic acid supplementation will decrease the risk of what we call neural tube defects (spina bifida is one example), decrease the incidence of lip and palate abnormalities, as well as prevent fetal heart defects. And a new study published in the Feb 13th 2013 JAMA showed that there was an association of folic ac...
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