Effects of Folate and Vitamin B12 Deficiencies During Pregnancy on Fetal, Infant, and Child Development

The importance of folate in reproduction can be appreciated by considering that the existence of the vitamin was first suspected from efforts to explain a potentially fatal megaloblastic anemia in young pregnant women in India. Today, low maternal folate status during pregnancy and lactation remains...

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Published in:	Food and nutrition bulletin 2008-06, Vol.29 (2_suppl1), p.S101-S111
Main Authors:	Molloy, Anne M., Kirke, Peadar N., Brody, Lawrence C., Scott, John M., Mills, James L.
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	abortion (animals) Abortion, Spontaneous - blood adolescence anemia birth weight child development Child Development - physiology Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena - physiology Child, Preschool childhood children congenital abnormalities Congenital Abnormalities - prevention & control Female Folic Acid Folic Acid Deficiency - blood Folic Acid Deficiency - complications Humans India Infant Infant, Low Birth Weight - blood Infant, Newborn lactation Maternal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena - physiology morbidity neonates neural tube defects Neural Tube Defects - prevention & control nutrition risk assessment Nutritional Status Pregnancy Pregnancy Complications - blood Pregnancy Complications - epidemiology Pregnancy Complications - prevention & control Pregnancy Outcome pregnant women Prenatal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena - physiology Vitamin B 12 - blood Vitamin B 12 Deficiency - blood Vitamin B 12 Deficiency - complications vitamin B12 vitamin status Women's Health
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