High folate intake is related to better academic achievement in Swedish adolescents

Pediatrics

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Nilsson, Torbjörn K ^a,b   Yngve, Agneta ^c,d   Böttiger, Anna K ^a   Hurtig Wennlöf, Anita ^b   Sjöström, Michael ^c  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d OSLO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Academic achievement; Adolescents; Boys; Dietary requirement; Folate intake; Girls; Homocysteine; Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase; MTHFR; Polymorphism; School grades

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT HEALTH; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHILD; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENDER; GENE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MTHFR 677C; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; STUDENT; SWEDISH;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; COHORT STUDIES; DIET; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; HUMANS; MALE; SWEDEN;

EID: 80051531364     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2010-1481     Document Type: Article

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