Dietary folate intake and blood biomarkers reveal high-risk groups in a mediterranean population of healthy women of childbearing potential

Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 179-185

  Agodi, Antonella ^a   Barchitta, Martina ^a   Valenti, Giovanna ^a   Quattrocchi, Annalisa ^a   Marchese, Anna Elisa ^b   Oliveri Conti, Gea ^a   Fallico, Roberto ^a   Sciacca, Salvatore ^a   Ferrante, Margherita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dietary folate; Homocysteine; Mediterranean diet; MTHFR; Pregnancy; Red blood cell folate; Smoke exposure

Indexed keywords

5,10 METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (FADH2); BIOLOGICAL MARKER; FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FOOD FREQUENCY QUESTIONNAIRE; GENOTYPE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING; YOUNG ADULT; AGE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; EDUCATION; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MTHFR GENE; NORMAL HUMAN; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; GENOTYPE; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (NADPH2); MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84894227321     PISSN: 02506807     EISSN: 14219697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000346962     Document Type: Article

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