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David Cicilline: “One of the biggest takeaways from the NIH-funded projects, the peer-reviewed studies found, that when a woman gets folic…”

On the recordNovember 8, 2017
One of the biggest takeaways from the NIH-funded projects, the peer-reviewed studies found, that when a woman gets folic acid in the first month of her pregnancy, the incidence of autism drops by 40 percent.
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David Cicilline
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Cicilline discusses the impact of folic acid on reducing autism rates.

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