Congenital malformations are worldwide occurrences striking in every condition of society. These severe physical abnormalities which are present at birth and affecting every part of the body happen more often than usually realized, once in every 33 births. The most common, after heart defects, are those of theneural tube (the brain and spinal cord) which happen in as many as one in every 350 births. They have been noted as curiousities in man and beast throughout recorded history and received great attention in our time by various fields of study, for example, their faulty prenatal development by embryologists, familial patterns by geneticists, causation by environmentalists and variability by population scientists. Attention turned much in recent years to the relation of these malformations to deficiency of a particular dietary ingredient, folic acid, a subject this book analyzes in depth. Information, analyses, and viewpoints not to be found elsewhere INDICE: 1. Introduction: Basics. 2. Neural Tube Defects. 3. Setting the Stage. 4. Studies in the Old World. 5. The Continent of Europe. 6. The United States. 7. Geography and Chronology. 8. Canada. 9. Australia and New Zealand. 10. Blacks and Jews. 11. The Mideast. 12. Asia. 13. The Sex Ratio Phenomenon. 14. Abortion. 15. Fetal Diagnosis of Neural Tube Defect. 16. Etiology I: Early Questions. 17. Etiology II. 18. Neural Tube Defects in China. 19. The Ultimate Question. 20. The Future.
- ISBN: 978-1-4020-9605-1
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 268
- Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés