Multivitamins and Nutrition

Posts Tagged ‘Childhood’

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women who take multivitamins before and during pregnancy reduced the chance of the baby developing certain types of tumors in childhood, researchers say.

The team led by G. Koren, of the University of Toronto, conducted a review of a large number of studies and found that taking a multivitamin before and during early pregnancy reduced by 36 percent the risk of childhood leukemia.

The prenatal vitamin supplement consumption was also associated with a 47 percent lower risk of developing neuroblastoma, a malignant tumor that grows in the nerve tissue, and a 27 percent lower risk of childhood brain tumors