Maternal Folate Concentration in Early Pregnancy and Newborn Telomere Length

Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 202-208

  Entringer, Sonja ^a,g   Epel, Elissa S ^e   Lin, Jue ^f   Blackburn, Elizabeth H ^f   Buss, Claudia ^a,g   Shahbaba, Babak ^b   Gillen, Daniel L ^b   Venkataramanan, Raman ^c   Simhan, Hyagriv N ^d   Wadhwa, Pathik D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Ringgold Standard Institution Informatics   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fetal programming; Folate; Pregnancy; Telomere biology

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; FOLIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL BLOOD; NEWBORN; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; UMBILICAL CORD; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; BLOOD; COHORT ANALYSIS; FETUS BLOOD; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PENNSYLVANIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; TELOMERE SHORTENING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FOLIC ACID; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MATERNAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PHILADELPHIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PREGNANCY, HIGH-RISK; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TELOMERE SHORTENING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84930892700     PISSN: 02506807     EISSN: 14219697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000381925     Document Type: Article

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