No relation between folate and homocysteine levels and depression in early pregnant women

BioScience Trends

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 344-350

  Watanabe, Hiroko ^a   Suganuma, Nobuhiko ^b   Hayashi, Ayako ^c   Hirowatari, Yumiko ^d   Hirowatari, Tsuneharu ^d   Ohsawa, Masami ^e  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c ST LUKE'S INTERNATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d Hirowatari Ladies' Clinic   (Japan)

^e Narita Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Depression; Folate; Homocysteine (Hcy); Nutrition; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE; PYRIDOXINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIET; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; JAPAN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; RISK;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; DIET; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; JAPAN; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; VITAMIN B 12; VITAMIN B 6;

EID: 79955668451     PISSN: 18817815     EISSN: 18817823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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