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Vitamins may lower risk of preterm births
Taking a multivitamin around the time of conception may help women lower their risk of delivering low-birth-weight babies, new research shows. The study, published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that women who took a daily multivitamin and were of normal weight had a nearly 20 percent lower chance of delivering a preterm baby, compared with those who did not take a daily multivitamin.
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