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Gina is pregnant. although gina's physician prescribed a prenatal vitamin for her to take daily, gina thought she could have a very healthy baby by taking extra vitamins, so she took several other dietary supplements, including those that contained vitamin

a. as a result, her total intake of vitamin a was over 5000 mcg rae/day. based on this information, gina is at risk of

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Gina is at risk of having an infant who would be born with a defect. It is because birth defects would likely occur when a pregnant mother has ingest an unrequired amount of supplements that would harm the baby. It could be seen above as takes up different supplements and had taken them in large quantities, this will likely make the baby to have birth defects.
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