Dr Lei Jin
Institute of Reproductive and Child Health, China
Biography
Dr. Lei Jin has her expertise in improving the health and wellbeing on maternal and child health. Maternal folic acid supplementation can effectively prevent the fetal occurrence of neural tube defects. Mandatory or non-mandatory dietary folic acid supplement policy conducted in 87 countries in the world till 2016. Chinese government provide 400 μg folic acid tablet free to women planning to get pregnancy since 2009. The adverse effects of folic acid supplementation were found in a few studies, including gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). She and her colleague explored association of peri-conceptional folic acid supplementation and risk of GDM in a large cohort of Chinese women in this study