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anencephaly

Absence of the cerebral hemispheres and the surrounding skull plates. Anencephalic babies do not survive more than a few hours. A neural tube defect, it can be detected prenatally.



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Increased risk for anencephaly in babies was associated with their mother living in an area where the nitrate in drinking water was above the MCL (OR = 4.
Spina bifida and anencephaly before and after folic acid mandate-United States, 1995-1996 and 1999-2000.
"Nobody now questions folic acid's protective effect against spina bifida and anencephaly," says Godfrey Oakley, former director of the Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
 
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