Serum and erythrocyte folate status of New Zealand women of childbearing age following a countrywide voluntary programme by the baking industry to fortify bread with folic acid

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 19, Issue 16, 2016, Pages 2897-2905

  Bradbury, Kathryn E ^a,b   Williams, Sheila M ^a   Mann, Jim I ^a   Oey, Indrawati ^a   Aitchison, Cindy ^a   Parnell, Winsome ^a   Fleming, Liz ^a   Brown, Rachel C ^a   Skeaff, C Murray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Folate; New Zealand; Survey; Women of childbearing age

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD; BREAD; CHEMISTRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FORTIFIED FOOD; HUMAN; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NEW ZEALAND; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; VOLUNTARY PROGRAM; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BREAD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; FOOD, FORTIFIED; HUMANS; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; NEW ZEALAND; NUTRITION SURVEYS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; VOLUNTARY PROGRAMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84973352170     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S136898001600121X     Document Type: Article

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