Dietary counseling to increase natural folate intake: A randomized, placebo-controlled trial in free-living subjects to assess effects on serum folate and plasma total homocysteine

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 758-765

  Venn, Bernard J ^a   Mann, Jim I ^a   Williams, Sheila M ^a   Riddell, Lynnette J ^a   Chisholm, Alexandra ^a   Harper, Michelle J ^a   Aitken, Wendy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Community participants; Diet; Dietary counseling; Folate; Folate intake; Homocysteine; Randomized trial

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE;

ARTICLE; CEREAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNSELING; DIET; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FAT INTAKE; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VASCULAR DISEASE; VITAMIN INTAKE;

EID: 0036784052     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajcn/76.4.758     Document Type: Article

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