Vitamins may lower brain tumor risk in offspring: "NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who take vitamin supplements during pregnancy appear to have infants with a reduced risk of brain tumors, according to researchers.
In addition, 'taking vitamin supplements very early in pregnancy, before most women know they are pregnant, prevents spina bifida and other neural tube defects,' lead investigator Dr. Greta R. Bunin told Reuters Health.
The researchers studied mothers of 315 children who had brain tumors add were younger than 6 years old at diagnosis. These women (cases) were compared with a group of 315 similar mothers (controls) without children with brain tumors."
