Folate concentrations and folic acid supplementation among women in their first trimester of pregnancy in a rural area with a high prevalence of neural tube defects in Shanxi, China

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 461-466

  Zhang, Le ^a   Ren, Aiguo ^a   Li, Zhiwen ^a   Hao, Ling ^a   Tian, Yihua ^a   Li, Zhu ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Folate; Folic acid; Neural tube defects; Supplementation; Women, pregnancy

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHINA; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; ERYTHROCYTE LEVEL; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; PARITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SMOKING; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

ADULT; CHINA; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; HUMANS; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PREVALENCE;

EID: 33748252690     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20271     Document Type: Article

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