Low Serum Vitamin B-12 Concentrations Are Prevalent in a Cohort of Pregnant Canadian Women.
Carly E VisentinShannon P MasihLesley PlumptreTheresa H SchroderKyoung-Jin SohnAnna LyAndrea Y LausmanHoward BergerRuth CroxfordYvonne LamersYoung-In KimDeborah L O'ConnorPublished in: The Journal of nutrition (2016)
Deficient and marginal serum vitamin B-12 concentrations are prevalent in Canadian pregnant women with the use of traditional cutoffs, despite supplement use. Given the growing interest among women to adhere to a vegetarian diet that may be lower in vitamin B-12, and vitamin B-12's importance in pregnancy, the functional ramifications of these observations need to be elucidated. This trial was registered at clinicaltrials.gov as NCT02244684.