Serum and red-blood-cell folate demonstrate differential associations with BMI in pregnant women

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 2016, Pages 2572-2579

  Shen, Minxue ^a,b,c   Chaudhry, Shazia Hira ^b,c   MacFarlane, Amanda J ^d   Gaudet, Laura ^b,c   Smith, Graeme N ^e   Rodger, Marc ^b,c   White, Ruth Rennicks ^b,c   Walker, Mark C ^b,c   Wen, Shi Wu ^a,b,c  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^e QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

BMI; Folate; Folic acid; Obesity; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (NADPH2); MTHFR PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; BLOOD; BODY MASS; CHEMISTRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; ONTARIO; PREGNANCY;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; HUMANS; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (NADPH2); NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; ONTARIO; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84964330564     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980016000756     Document Type: Article

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