Folate, Vitamin B12 and Homocysteine status in the post-folic acid fortification era in different subgroups of the Brazilian population attended to at a public health care center

Nutrition Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Barnabé, Aline ^a   Aléssio, Ana Cláudia Morandi ^a   Bittar, Luis Fernando ^a   De Moraes Mazetto, Bruna ^a   Bicudo, Angélica M ^a   De Paula, Erich V ^a   Höehr, Nelci Fenalti ^a   Annichino Bizzacchi, Joyce M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Folate; Folic acid fortification; Glutamate carboxypeptidase II; Homocysteine; Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase; Reduced folate carrier; Vitamin B12

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE; CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (NADPH2); MTHFR PROTEIN, HUMAN; REDUCED FOLATE CARRIER; SLC19A1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BRAZILIAN; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; GCPII GENE; GENE; GENOTYPE; GROUPS BY AGE; GROUPS BY AGE AND SEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LABORATORY TEST; LACTATION; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MTHFR GENE; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RFC1 GENE; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; AGE; BLOOD; BRAZIL; ETHNOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; VERY ELDERLY; VITAMIN B 12 DEFICIENCY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAZIL; CARBOXYPEPTIDASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; INFANT; LACTATION; MALE; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (NADPH2); MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; REDUCED FOLATE CARRIER PROTEIN; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; VITAMIN B 12; VITAMIN B 12 DEFICIENCY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84924964560     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12937-015-0006-3     Document Type: Article

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