Haematological implications of folate food fortification
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Haematological implications of folate food fortification.
Reports from some Western countries indicate that mandatory folate food fortification (FFF) has substantially reduced the prevalence of folate deficiency, leading to calls for folate testing following FFF to be limited to specific indications such as macrocytic anaemia. This is premature for low-income countries, where folate deficiency is predominantly the result of poor intake coupled with th...
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عنوان ژورنال: South African Medical Journal
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2078-5135
DOI: 10.7196/samj.7022