• DOI:10.1212/WNL.0000000000003909
Corpus ID: 325155

Meta-analysis of folic acid efficacy trials in stroke prevention

@article{Zhao2017MetaanalysisOF,
  title={Meta-analysis of folic acid efficacy trials in stroke prevention},
  author={Min Zhao and Guang-liang Wu and Youbao Li and Xiaobin Wang and F. Hou and Xiping Xu and X. Qin and Yefeng Cai},
  journal={Neurology},
  year={2017},
  volume={88},
  pages={1830 - 1838}
}

• Min Zhao, Guang-liang Wu, +5 authors Yefeng Cai
• Published 2017
• Medicine
• Neurology

Objective: To examine the efficacy and effect modifiers of folic acid supplementation in the prevention of stroke in regions without folic acid fortification based on relevant, up-to-date published randomized trials. Methods: Relative risk (RR) was used to measure the effect of folic acid supplementation on risk of stroke using a fixed effects model. Findings: Overall, folic acid supplementation significantly reduced the stroke risk by 11% (22 trials, n = 82,723; RR 0.89, 95% confidence… Expand