Pre-Pregnancy Multivitamins Prevent Prematurity

Women who take multivitamins before becoming pregnant are less likely to give birth to premature babies, new study findings suggest. According to the research, conducted at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, women who took multivitamins before conceiving were half as likely to deliver their babies before 37 weeks of pregnancy. However, continuing the multivitamins through the first months of pregnancy appeared to have no influence on the risk of prematurity, according to the American Journal of Epidemiology report. Study author Dr. Anjel Vahratian explained that multivitamins contain folic