How Long to Read The China-US Partnership to Prevent Spina Bifida

How Long Does it Take to Read The China-US Partnership to Prevent Spina Bifida?

It takes the average reader 5 hours to read The China-US Partnership to Prevent Spina Bifida by Deborah Kowal

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

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In 1983 two doctors, one from each side of the world, decided to form a partnership, and so began a scientific adventure that would improve the odds that babies could be born healthy and whole. Neural tube defects that severely disabled or killed babies were epidemic in China (where the folk term was guai tai--roughly "monster baby"--for an infant whose embryonic neural tube doesn't completely close and whose head and neck may be misshapen or spine may protrude) and a significant problem in the United States, leading teams of researchers from the United States and China to combine forces to recruit more than 285,000 Chinese women and to follow nearly 250,000 pregnancies in an epidemiological study. Sixteen thousand staff were involved in running the project, which encountered massive bureaucratic obstacles as well as cultural differences, politicking for study designs and funding, the crisis of Tiananmen Square, and testy debates over research ethics. Nevertheless, the researchers persevered in a collaboration that lasted more than three decades and led to landmark findings on the role of folic acid in preventing spina bifida. Fortifying cereal grain products with folic acid became routine in the United States and a growing number of nations around the world: that intervention was named one of the ten great public health achievements of the last decade.

How long is The China-US Partnership to Prevent Spina Bifida?

The China-US Partnership to Prevent Spina Bifida by Deborah Kowal is 295 pages long, and a total of 75,225 words.

This makes it 100% the length of the average book. It also has 92% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The China-US Partnership to Prevent Spina Bifida Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 51 minutes to read The China-US Partnership to Prevent Spina Bifida aloud.

What Reading Level is The China-US Partnership to Prevent Spina Bifida?

The China-US Partnership to Prevent Spina Bifida is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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