Folates in the periconceptional period: Are women getting enough?

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 105, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 954-959

  Mathews, Fiona ^a   Yudkin, Patricia ^b   Neil, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CONCEPTION; DEMOGRAPHY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMIGRAVIDA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMOKING; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; HUMANS; MATERNAL AGE; PRECONCEPTION CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 0031664523     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: 14710528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1998.tb10257.x     Document Type: Article

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