Plasma folate status and dietary folate intake among Chinese women of childbearing age

Maternal and Child Nutrition

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 104-116

  Zhao, Yaling ^a   Hao, Ling ^a   Zhang, Le ^a   Tian, Yihua ^a   Cao, Yiwu ^b   Xia, Haihui ^b   Deng, Yajun ^b   Wang, Tiangui ^b   Yu, Ming ^b   Li, Zhu ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^b Department of Health of Gansu Province ^*  (China)

Author keywords

Dietary folate intake; Folate; Folic acid; Neural tube defects; Plasma folate status; Women of childbearing age

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CHINA; DIET; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; HUMANS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 62749155366     PISSN: 17408695     EISSN: 17408709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8709.2008.00172.x     Document Type: Article

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