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Plasma folate levels and associated factors in women planning to become pregnant in a population with high prevalence of neural tube defects.

Rui MaLinlin WangLei JinZhiwen LiAiguo Ren
Published in: Birth defects research (2017)
Women who planned to become pregnant had very low plasma folate in the population. Folic acid supplementation was the only factor to be associated with a high plasma folate concentration. High NTD risk would remain if women would get pregnant without having taken folic acid supplements. Birth Defects Research 109:1039-1047, 2017. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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